From: Graham Barr <bodg@tiuk.ti.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1997 21:29:04 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Fix: empty @_ when calling empty-proto subs without parens
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Fix: empty @_ when calling empty-proto subs without parens

Graham Barr wrote:

<snip>

> OK, so I thought that prototypes in Socket.pm (which is probably
> a good idea) could help here, but... guess what the following
> script outputs
>
> sub fred ()
> {
>  warn join(" ",@_);
> }
>
> fred;
> @_ = qw(a b c);
> &fred;
> fred;
> __END__
>
> It outputs ...
>
> Warning: something's wrong at yyy line 3.
> a b c at yyy line 3.
> a b c at yyy line 3.
>
> OK I can belive the second one as it has the & style call (which
> the pod states overrides prototypes) but I was very amazed at
> the last call.
>
> Is this a bug ?? I think so as the pod suggests that a sub defined
> as
>
> sub mytime ();
>
> and a statement such as
>
>   mytime +2;
>
> will by the same as
>
>  mytime() + 2
>
> but this is not the case, it seems it would be
>
>  &mytime(@_) + 2
>

OK, here is a patch which fixes this. It requires a modification
to perly.y and perly.c (I cannot re-generate perly.c here
but it is a simple fix)


it chamges the output of the above script to

Warning: something's wrong at yyy line 3.
Warning: something's wrong at yyy line 3.
a b c at yyy line 3.
---

diff --git a/perly.c b/perly.c
index 6ff2f58..50a28ff 100644
--- a/perly.c
+++ b/perly.c
@@ -2097,7 +2097,7 @@ case 141:
 break;
 case 142:
 #line 531 "perly.y"
-{ yyval.opval = newUNOP(OP_ENTERSUB, 0,
+{ yyval.opval = newUNOP(OP_ENTERSUB, OPf_STACKED,
 				scalar(yyvsp[0].opval)); }
 break;
 case 143:
diff --git a/perly.y b/perly.y
index a281dff..30ae76f 100644
--- a/perly.y
+++ b/perly.y
@@ -528,7 +528,7 @@ term	:	term ASSIGNOP term
 	|	FUNC0 '(' ')'
 			{ $$ = newOP($1, 0); }
 	|	FUNC0SUB
-			{ $$ = newUNOP(OP_ENTERSUB, 0,
+			{ $$ = newUNOP(OP_ENTERSUB, OPf_STACKED,
 				scalar($1)); }
 	|	FUNC1 '(' ')'
 			{ $$ = newOP($1, OPf_SPECIAL); }