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in reply to perl segfaults when parsing script

Doesnt seem to affect the AS/Win32 builds....
D:\Development>perl -v This is perl, v5.6.1 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread (with 1 registered patch, see perl -V for more detail) Copyright 1987-2001, Larry Wall Binary build 633 provided by ActiveState Corp. http://www.ActiveState. +com Built 21:33:05 Jun 17 2002 ... D:\Development>perl -e "chop string;" Can't modify constant item in chop at -e line 1, near "string;" Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors.
and
E:\>perl58 -v This is perl, v5.8.0 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread (with 1 registered patch, see perl -V for more detail) ... E:\>perl58 -e "chop string" Can't modify constant item in chop at -e line 1, at EOF Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors.

Yves / DeMerphq
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