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in thread What magic is this?

You have an interesting take on the word 'interesting' :-)

Expat.pm has use Carp in it, when I added it to my first script it made no difference. It still ran without complaining.

Line 451... 

  if (defined $arg) {
    if (ref($arg) and UNIVERSAL::isa($arg, 'IO::Handler')) {
      $ioref = $arg;
    } else {
      eval {
-->    $ioref = *{$arg}{IO};
      };
      undef $@;
    }
  }

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I've tried eval'ing the call in my code but the error message still gets through. As its stands I'm going to have to amend my log_die sub-routine to ignore messages with Expat in them (which is horrible).

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Re^3: What magic is this?
by shmem (Chancellor) on Oct 26, 2006 at 12:46 UTC
    That code block in my Expat.pm (version 2.34) looks like 
      if (defined $arg) {
    if (ref($arg) and UNIVERSAL::isa($arg, 'IO::Handle')) {
      $ioref = $arg;
    } elsif (tied($arg)) {
      my $class = ref($arg);
      no strict 'refs';
      $ioref = $arg if defined &{"${class}::TIEHANDLE"};
    }
    else {
      require IO::Handle;
      eval {
        no strict 'refs';
        $ioref = *{$arg}{IO} if defined *{$arg};
      };
      undef $@;
    }
  }

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    but to me it looks equally scary. undef $@ after eval? wtf?

    At least, there's no strict 'refs'; inside the eval (but isn't it another wtf?)

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