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Agreed. But what about just using @_ = @_ instead of local @_? Assignment to @_ is what the docs prescribe for breaking the aliasing. Any reason for preferring one approach over the other?

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Re^4: Spot the bug!
by diotalevi (Canon) on Oct 27, 2006 at 05:09 UTC

    I said local $@, not @_. There's no point to localizing @_, that's your input! You'd copy stuff out of it if you needed that behavior.

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