in reply to Re: YAlQ: Yet Another local() Question.
in thread YAlQ: Yet Another local() Question.
It says local() does what I think it does, it exists mainly for historical reasons, and also says "never use local(), always use my()".
I think the last is a bit much. I find constructs like: <code> { local $\ = $RECORDSEPARATOR; $record = <INFILE>; } <code> to be quite handy, and much less unwieldy than the alternative I mentioned.
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