Data::Compare bug - Fabien Tassin please contact me

[David Cantrell]

I have found one fairly serious bug in Data::Compare, and one thing
that I think is a bug but I'm not sure of.

The possible bug is that Fabien uses /o on a pattern match with an
interpolated scalar, where the scalar's value will change from one
invocation to another and I don't think he wants to just use the first
value for all eternity.

The serious bug is that it Does The Wrong Thing when asked to compare
objects which overload the stringify and numify operations. I have
patched it to deal with Scalar:roperties objects in what I think is
the right way.

I've tried contacting Fabien about this, but he isn't answering his
mail. Perhaps the address in the docs is out of date. If anyone
knows how to contact him, please can you pass this on?

If I don't hear anything in a few weeks, I'll upload my patched
version to CPAN, if anyone else wants it before then, please mail me.

 

[Steffen Müller]

David Cantrell wrote:
[...]

If I don't hear anything in a few weeks, I'll upload my patched
version to CPAN, if anyone else wants it before then, please mail me.

If you can't reach the author and want peer review nonetheless, try
subscribing to the code-review-ladder /at/ lists.netthink.co.uk mailing
list. It'd be expected that you offer the same service - in a reasonable
dose - to other list dwellers, though.

Steffen