Re: suggested warning about perl nested named subroutines

On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 10:01:02PM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
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> David Fetter wrote:
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> >On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 09:58:22PM -0400, Neil Conway wrote:
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> >>On Tue, 2005-11-10 at 18:36 -0700, David Fetter wrote:
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> >>>Examples of each and how they'd break would be good.
> >>>
> >>Is that needed? Seems like overkill to me.
> >
> >IMHO, yes, and no, respectively. If there's an example, there's
> >fewer frustrated people pestering lists about it.
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> If this were a Postgres problem I'd agree with you. But it isn't,
> really - it's a Perl problem, which is properly documented in the
> Perl docs, to which this note refers.
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> I don't think we'll get flooded with problems - Greg is the first
> person who has complained about it in the 9 months or so since
> version 8.0 was released.

Fair enough :)

Cheers,
D
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