home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Xref: sparky comp.lang.perl:5605 alt.security:4222
- Path: sparky!uunet!charon.amdahl.com!amdahl!JUTS!hom00
- From: hom00@ccc.amdahl.com (Harold O Morris)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl,alt.security
- Subject: Malformed cmd Links
- Message-ID: <f2oq02E81fSW01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com>
- Date: 30 Aug 92 19:50:13 GMT
- References: <DSG.92Aug26141726@blackbird.mitre.org> <1992Aug27.210806.7694@porthos.cc.bellcore.com> <DSG.92Aug28083002@blackbird.mitre.org>
- Reply-To: hom00@JUTS.uts.amdahl.com (Harold O Morris)
- Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA
- Lines: 12
-
- Another user wrote in about this problem, in a different context. I have
- a sort of interactive Perl environment, that lets me iteratively hack on
- a perl subroutine til I get it right. The trouble is, since 4.035, it
- seems to give this error message ("Malformed cmd links"), whenever I have
- it "do" a module containing definition of a previously defined subroutine.
-
- Previously, it seemed to redefine routines just fine, and I don't know if
- there were any problems, such as "leaking" the data storage representing
- the old version of the subroutine. Has Perl indeed adopted a policy of
- not liking redefinitions of subroutines? (and if so, what a cryptic way
- to tell me - the error message sounds not particularly intended for users'
- tender ears/eyes).
-