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No, but how can one assign to a hash element that does not exist? Well, %ENV is magical, so let's test it out.

$ perl -wE'
   my $condition = 0;
   say exists($ENV{BLAH}) || 0;
   local $ENV{BLAH} = $condition ? 42 : $ENV{BLAH};
   say exists($ENV{BLAH}) || 0;
'
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So I was right

This is perl 5, version 12, subversion 2 (v5.12.2) built for i686-linu
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In reply to Re^4: How to localize conditionally? (tias) by ikegami
in thread How to localize conditionally? by saintmike

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