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diff --git a/doc/bugs/methodResponse_in_add__95__plugins.mdwn b/doc/bugs/methodResponse_in_add__95__plugins.mdwn index 64a919cec..8a88f4eda 100644 --- a/doc/bugs/methodResponse_in_add__95__plugins.mdwn +++ b/doc/bugs/methodResponse_in_add__95__plugins.mdwn @@ -14,6 +14,13 @@ **patch comment:** solves the problem on 2.61. as these are the first lines of perl i've knowingly written, i can not explain what exactly was happening there. +> Perl's `$_` handling is the worst wart on it, or possibly any language. +> Here it's an alias to the actual value in the array, and when deep +> in the external plugin load code something resets `$_` to a different +> value, the alias remains and it changes the value at a distance. +> +> Thanks for the excellent problem report, [[fixed|done]]. --[[Joey]] + ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ diff --git a/IkiWiki.pm b/IkiWiki.pm index e476521..d43abd4 100644 |