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• Hmmm... (Score:2)

  by rjray (1649)

  Well, this is a stab in the dark, but when I see -1 being used in a fetch-from-array context, I tend to assume it's counting from the end of the array, not being treated directly as an index. Other than that, you aren't checking whether you're called on a reference or statically, which leads me to think that "ident $self" might not always return what you expect it to return.

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  --rjray
  • Re:Hmmm... (Score:2)

    by Ovid (2709) on 2006.03.03 20:43 (#46445) Homepage Journal

    Trust me. Once you see the bug, it's a forehead slapper -- if you've encountered this behavior before. It's something that folks often miss because it occurs so rarely, but it's a natural consequence of how Perl behaves.

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    • D'oh! (Score:2)

      by rjray (1649)

      *sound of forehead-slapping*

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      --rjray
      • Re:D'oh! (Score:2)

        by Ovid (2709)

        Yeah, I know. It bit me, too :)