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-rw-r--r--globals.pl8
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/globals.pl b/globals.pl
index e54dff245..16cdba73b 100644
--- a/globals.pl
+++ b/globals.pl
@@ -1440,7 +1440,13 @@ sub Param ($) {
# If it's still not defined, we're pimped.
die "Can't find param named $value" if (! defined $::param{$value});
- if ($::param_type{$value} eq "m") {
+ ## Check to make sure the entry in $::param_type is there; if we don't, we
+ ## get 'use of uninitialized constant' errors (see bug 162217).
+ ## Interestingly enough, placing this check in the die above causes
+ ## deaths on some params (the "languages" param?) because they don't have
+ ## a type? Odd... seems like a bug to me... but what do I know? -jpr
+
+ if (defined $::param_type{$value} && $::param_type{$value} eq "m") {
my $valueList = eval($::param{$value});
return $valueList if (!($@) && ref($valueList) eq "ARRAY");
die "Multi-list param '$value' eval() failure ('$@'); data/params is horked";