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in thread Why should I use perl 5.10?

I think the OP means "state variables" as that's what they are called in Perl 6. The declarator is the word state too. 

sub foo {
    state $x = 0;   # $x will retain it's state through
                    # successive invocations of foo()
    # ...
}

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(Yes, other languages use the keyword static, but this is Perl!)

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