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Capture.perl doesn't show arg mutability #5588

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p6rt opened this issue Aug 17, 2016 · 3 comments
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Capture.perl doesn't show arg mutability #5588

p6rt opened this issue Aug 17, 2016 · 3 comments
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p6rt commented Aug 17, 2016

Migrated from rt.perl.org#128978 (status was 'open')

Searchable as RT128978$

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p6rt commented Aug 17, 2016

From zefram@fysh.org

my $a = 3; my $c = \($a); $c.perl
\(3)

The fact that the argument in the Capture is mutable is a rather
important aspect of the Capture, and the .perl isn't representing it.
It's showing code for a quite different Capture of an immutable argument.
This is less than awesome. Obviously .perl can't be expected to preserve
the specific identity of the mutable argument, but it could at least
preserve the fact that it's mutable, by emitting something like `\(my $
= 3)` in place of `\(3)`.

-zefram

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p6rt commented Aug 18, 2016

From @dwarring

Same can also be said of other containers, including lists and pairs​:

my $l = (10, my $ = 20); $l[1]++; say $l.perl;
$(10, 21)
my $p = (10 => my $ = 20); $p.value++; say $p.perl;
10 => 21

These also don't attempt to show mutability.

On Wed Aug 17 15​:54​:05 2016, zefram@​fysh.org wrote​:

my $a = 3; my $c = \($a); $c.perl
\(3)

The fact that the argument in the Capture is mutable is a rather
important aspect of the Capture, and the .perl isn't representing it.
It's showing code for a quite different Capture of an immutable argument.
This is less than awesome. Obviously .perl can't be expected to preserve
the specific identity of the mutable argument, but it could at least
preserve the fact that it's mutable, by emitting something like `\(my $
= 3)` in place of `\(3)`.

-zefram

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p6rt commented Aug 18, 2016

The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

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