Re^3: Are global variables "bad"?

local only works on global variables. It puts a temporary value into the global variable until the current block is left. Also see Seven Useful Uses for Local.

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Re^4: Are global variables "bad"? by JavaFan (Canon) on Apr 21, 2009 at 21:21 UTC
local only works on global variables. Not true. It's not even true if you meant "package" where you wrote "global". `$ perl -wE 'my @a = (1, 2, 3); {local $a[1] = 7; say "@a";} say "@a"' 1 7 3 1 2 3` [download]	[reply] [d/l]


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