Re: is the lifetime of event objects limited?
[email protected] (( Marc) (A.) (Lehmann ))
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On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 01:22:55PM +0200, Jochen Stenzel <[email protected]> wrote: > >Are the event objects being reused in a way that makes it impossible to > >extend their life over the callback itself? > > Hm. What I'm asking myself thinking about this is what special kind of > information is provided by stored (but already handled) Event::Event i found the problem: event indeed does not like it when I try to use event objects after the callback returns. (this is bad and forced me to implement my own event object wrapper). > objects in your queue (taking into account that this is an intermediate > structure just built for the callback) ... is this an information that > cannot be catched another way? Could it be stored for itself, without > the Event::Event object? sure.i can make a copy. but what sense does it make to copy a perl structure when you just can store it in a variable ;) anyway, this could be documented, but I worked around it, so no problem. > cause trouble, but to answer this, I assume we have to wait for Joshua > or have to look at the code ... explains it well (I just want that fixed Event-0.84 ;) thx ;) -- -----==- | ----==-- _ | ---==---(_)__ __ ____ __ Marc Lehmann +-- --==---/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / [email protected] |e| -=====/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ XX11-RIPE --+ The choice of a GNU generation | |