Re: [ID 20000125.002] Problem in documentation of Fcntl constants

[Tom Christiansen <tchrist@chthon.perl.com>]

>Avoiding the encapsulation vs. expose-the-ductwork debate, the point still
>remains that that the :flock constants are prototyped as sub LOCK_SH {...}
>not sub LOCK_SH() { ... }:

>    *$AUTOLOAD = sub { $val };

>causing a working C idiom LOCK_SH + LOCK_NB to fail in Perl.

Oh, I see.  Yes, the whole default context coercion prototypes were
introduced to address this very sort of issue.  I didn't realize
that they hadn't been fixed up.

--tom

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