[comp.lang.perl] P3PL14 buglets

merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz) (03/14/90)

Minor nit.

First, the patch I got from the net failed for eval.c (wrong version).
Maybe I was running with a bad eval.c from the previous version
without knowing it?

So, I FTP'ed the latest from devvax.  Got'em compiled (still have the
volatile bug on Ultrix 2, so my notes for building pl12 still apply).
Ran'em.  Looks super.  Tried 'perl -de 0' to invoke the debugger.  It
worked fine.  Said 'print $];'.  Gacck!  Patchlevel 12!  Checked
source.  Yup.  Still 12!  So now, except for the addition of the slice
operator, there's no very-fast way to tell the difference.

If Larry says "fixed in Patch 15", I'll scream. :-)

print +(split(//,'Just anoherPlck,'))[0..7,3,8..10,4,11,9,10,12,4,8,5,13,14,9,10,15];
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lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall) (03/14/90)

In article <1990Mar13.200026.26200@iwarp.intel.com> merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz) writes:
: So, I FTP'ed the latest from devvax.  Got'em compiled (still have the
: volatile bug on Ultrix 2, so my notes for building pl12 still apply).
: Ran'em.  Looks super.  Tried 'perl -de 0' to invoke the debugger.  It
: worked fine.  Said 'print $];'.  Gacck!  Patchlevel 12!  Checked
: source.  Yup.  Still 12!  So now, except for the addition of the slice
: operator, there's no very-fast way to tell the difference.

: If Larry says "fixed in Patch 15", I'll scream. :-)

I will assume that you fixed it in patch 15.  Meaning, take an editor
to your patchlevel.h file and change it to 14.  Only people who ftp'd
the kits in the last 24 hours are affected by this--the patches themselves
will leave the kits at patchlevel 14.

Larry