Re: Tying sub arguments is rare?

On Wed, Oct 13, 1999 at 04:22:59AM -0700, [email protected] wrote:
> According to M.J.T. Guy:
> > Does this mean that code like this will break?
> >      my @a = (1..5);
> >      my $b = \($a[2]);        # LINE 2
> >      tie $a[2], 'MyWatcher';  # LINE 3
> >      $$b = 4;         # should be seen by watcher
> 
> Yes.
> 
> Doggone it, if I have to change this I'm going to be ticked.

Just reorder line 2 to be after line 3.  What's the big deal?

Can anyone think of an example that is less contrived and actually hard
to fix?

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