P5-lexical-sealrequirehints

Jul 20, 2023

Perl module to prevent leakage of lexical hints

Perl module to prevent leakage of lexical hints

LexicalSealRequireHints works around two historical bugs in Perl’s handling of the ^H lexical hints variable. One bug causes lexical state in one file to leak into another that is required/used from it. This bug, [perl #68590], was present from Perl 5.6 up to Perl 5.10, fixed in Perl 5.11.0. The second bug causes lexical state normally a blank ^H once the first bug is fixed to leak outwards from utf8.pm, if it is automatically loaded during Unicode regular expression matching, into whatever source is compiling at the time of the regexp match. This bug, [perl #73174], was present from Perl 5.8.7 up to Perl 5.11.5, fixed in Perl 5.12.0.

Both of these bugs seriously damage the usability of any module relying on ^H for lexical scoping, on the affected Perl versions. It is in practice essential to work around these bugs when using such modules. On versions of Perl that require such a workaround, this module globally changes the behaviour of require, including use and the implicit require performed in Unicode regular expression matching, so that it no longer exhibits these bugs.



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