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From: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Minor error in getopt.pl and getopts.pl
Message-ID: <6867@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Date: 22 Jan 90 21:47:09 GMT
References: <6788@ogicse.ogc.edu>
Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
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In article <6788@ogicse.ogc.edu> schaefer@ogicse.UUCP (Barton E. Schaefer) writes:
: I'm not sure what the correct general solution to this is.  For getopt
: and getopts, it would be easy enough to refer to $ARGV[$[] everywhere.
: But perhaps a better guideline is that all library functions should
: use something like
: 
:     local($[) = 0;	# Enforce local subscripting conventions
: 
: (Would that work the way I think, Larry?  Or would it be necessary to
: save, reset, and restore the global $[ ?)

That works, and I've added it to get*.pl and a few others.

Larry