Bug#318579: [PATCH] Document that FileCache uses symbolic references

Michael G Schwern schwern at pobox.com
Wed May 6 05:40:42 UTC 2009


Niko Tyni wrote:
> As noted by Marc Haber in <http://bugs.debian.org/318579>,
> using FileCache.pm as per the SYNOPSIS doesn't work under
> 'use strict'. This is a bit unexpected nowadays, so mention
> it in the documentation.

It would be better instead of putting up big warning signs about the quirky
and unnecessary part of the API to just downplay it and focus on the proper
way using a filehandle... oh, except its not really a filehandle.  That's just
bizarre.  Uggh.

Maybe it needs to be reworked to return a subclassed FileHandle object.


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