Re: plperl & sort

On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 11:14, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Andrew Gierth <andrew@tao11.riddles.org.uk> writes:
>> Nice theory, but completely wrong: sort creates $a and $b in the
>> current package, not in main::.
>
> Hmm ... so then why are we seeing a failure?

Because Safe runs in a different namespace altogether (part of why its
Safe).  We build the sub under Safe but then execute it  in the real
namespace.   The patch I posted fixes this but Id like someone with
more knowledge of safe to look over it.  From a quick cvs log it
*looked* like that was Andrew Dunstan which is why I cc'ed him.  This
is not a Safe bug IMHO its our (ab)use of it that is causing the
problem.  Of course if its only sort that gets affected maybe the cure
is worse than the disease...