Re: Apparent bugs in various things

Spider Boardman (spider@web.zk3.dec.com)
Fri, 21 Mar 1997 02:31:24 -0500 

The problem with having it barf on the LVALUE ref is caused by
passing a constant SV as a subroutine argument.  *That*, at least,
can be fixed by the following:

--- HTTP/Message.pm.~1~	Mon Nov 25 10:00:52 1996
+++ HTTP/Message.pm	Fri Mar 21 02:26:01 1997
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
     } else {
 	$header = new HTTP::Headers;
     }
-    $content = '' unless defined $content;
+    $content ||= '';
     bless {
 	'_headers' => $header,
 	'_content' => $content,


That avoids generating the initial '_content' member with a
constant.

	--spider