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You're not alone (Score:2)

by petdance (2468) <andy@petdance.com> on 2003.03.18 10:17 (#18027) Homepage Journal

You're not alone. I've been bitten by this same bug [perl.org], too.

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- Re:You're not alone (Score:3, Insightful)
  
  by vsergu (505)
  
  Why, oh why doesn't Perl emit a warning when converting a reference to a string? Even PHP gets that right in an equivalent situation.
  - Re:You're not alone (Score:2)
    
    by petdance (2468)
    
    It's a feature. I guess.
    Suffice to say that there has been much discussion of it on p5p over the years.
    
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