Re^4: Are global variables "bad"?

by JavaFan (Canon)

on Apr 21, 2009 at 21:21 UTC ( [id://759121]=note: print w/replies, xml )

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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
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