On Wednesday 13 April 2005 20:00, Nick Glencross wrote: > # New Ticket Created by Nick Glencross > # Please include the string: [perl #34964] > # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. > # <URL: https://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=34964 > > > > This patch fixes a few operations which are badly inherited by string > from scalar.pmc. increment/decrement have been removed as they aren't > really required for Strings. 'neg' also also suffered from a similar > problem, so this patch also stops this example segfaulting: > > .sub test > new $P0, .String > $P0 = "12" > neg $P0 > print $P0 > print_newline > .end Thanks, applied. Can someone please make a test from it?
> You may need to do a make clean or similar to get string.c to be > properly built...(?) Hmm, the old dependency-problems story :-( > [My feeling is that scalar should define set_integer_native, > set_number_native etc. to automatically morph, and then for integer, > float and string to override these to either not morph (for better > performance), or just do their own thing (i.e. > string::set_integer_native to convert the int to a String). That way you > can't get data being changed without its interpretation.] jens
