X-Git-Url: https://sipb.mit.edu/gitweb.cgi/ikiwiki.git/blobdiff_plain/a8d9f1c5cd1bbceef5d946aae54e0432b7bfb40a..dc00739d43dc3ceef18472116f5589ef2476a37e:/doc/bugs/methodResponse_in_add__95__plugins.mdwn

diff --git a/doc/bugs/methodResponse_in_add__95__plugins.mdwn b/doc/bugs/methodResponse_in_add__95__plugins.mdwn
index 64a919cec..c82b532db 100644
--- a/doc/bugs/methodResponse_in_add__95__plugins.mdwn
+++ b/doc/bugs/methodResponse_in_add__95__plugins.mdwn
@@ -14,12 +14,19 @@
 
 **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]]
+
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     diff --git a/IkiWiki.pm b/IkiWiki.pm
     index e476521..d43abd4 100644
     --- a/IkiWiki.pm
     +++ b/IkiWiki.pm
-    @@ -471,7 +471,11 @@ sub loadplugins () { #{{{
+    @@ -471,7 +471,11 @@ sub loadplugins () {
                     unshift @INC, possibly_foolish_untaint($config{libdir});
             }