Re: Perl 5.18 breaks pl/perl regression tests?

From: "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)justatheory(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Kaare Rasmussen <kaare(at)jasonic(dot)dk>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Perl 5.18 breaks pl/perl regression tests?
Date: 2013-06-03 16:16:03
Message-ID: 5BCAF587-0162-433E-9AB4-102EC7E734B2@justatheory.com
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On Jun 3, 2013, at 7:31 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> Hah. That leads to
> http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/451f421
> in which it's said "What happens is that eval tacks "\n;" on to the end
> of the string if it does not already end with a semicolon."
>
> So we could likely hide the cross-version difference in behavior by
> adjusting these two test cases to include a semicolon in the eval'd
> string.

And a comment, since that is, shall we say, rather obscure.

David

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