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From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <gerrit AT familiehaase DOT de>
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To: Rhet Turnbull <rhetlist AT yahoo DOT com>, rhetlist AT yahoo DOT com, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2002 23:30:40 +0100
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Subject: Re: bug in Cygwin perl 5.6.1?
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Am 31 Jan 2002 um 9:21 hat Rhet Turnbull geschrieben:

>There seems to be a bug in Cygwin's perl (5.6.1). The
>following code:
>
>perl -e 'print $^S || 0;eval {print $^S || 0}; print
>$^S || 0;'
>
>should produce '010'

Why?  Where is docu about this?
Thanks

Gerrit

>However, on Cygwin perl 5.6.1, it produces 011.  This
>means that perl incorrectly thinks it's in an eval
>block when it's not.  I've checked this on perl v5.6.1
>for other platforms (including Win32) and it seems to
>work fine.
-- 
=^..^=


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