How did this end up being sent to the list? I merely replied to a ticket to the Devel-Cycle queue on RT.
The sole maintainer of this dist is LDS, whose email address doesn't appear to be this list, nor is the list address mentioned in the ticket. > <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=56681 > > > On Fri Apr 16 18:01:50 2010, WYANT wrote: > > > This appears to be because regular expressions have become first-class > > objects under 5.12, so UNIVERSAL::isa($thingy,'SCALAR'), which was true > > under 5.10 when $thingy contained a reference to a regexp, is false > > under 5.12. > > It is not valid to use UNIVERSAL::isa in this way: > 1. isa is only a (object or class) method, not a function - it must have an > invocant > 2. isa should only properly be used for class names or blessed objects, not > for base types -- to check the base type of a reference, use > Scalar::Util::reftype. > > Is the repository in git yet? If so, I can provide patches. thank you!
