Re^4: my $cache = undef if undef;


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Re^4: my $cache = undef if undef;

by ysth (Canon)

on Jan 27, 2005 at 06:32 UTC ( [id://425480]=note: print w/replies, xml )

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It may very well be gone someday in perl5. Really. Don't use it. Also note that the staticness is relative to the pad, not the function; for instance, the data does not persist for recursive calls to the function.

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Re^5: my $cache = undef if undef;
by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Jan 27, 2005 at 17:28 UTC

If you look a few nodes further up the thread you'll see I'm advising against its use anyway. :-) I'm simply saying that there is a lot of inertia against its disappearance. That's not a promise, of course. It does work in the meantime though, and can very occasionally be useful so long as we're talking about throwaway code (I used it in a oneliner once to save a few keystrokes.)

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