Re: Tying sub arguments is rare?

On Wed, Oct 13, 1999 at 01:20:33PM -0700, Chip Salzenberg wrote:
> According to John Porter:
> > Is having it behave differently from perl5 a big deal?
> 
> That's the key question, isn't it?  I hardly think tying variables to
> which references already exist is a common practice.

Then, unless it has changed, I guess you have not used Tk recently
as IIRC there are some modules there which call tie via a reference
that was passed to the sub, so it is quite possible that other
references exist.

I think your assumption that this is not practice is not used a lot
is a badly informed one.

But then Tk will need a lot of work if XS is not going to be compatible
as it stresses XS now :-)

>  And we already
> have disavowed any claims of 100% Perl 5 compatibility.

Maybe, but the number is getting smaller all the time.


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