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From: merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Strange behavior with "local"
Keywords: local bug
Message-ID: <1990Mar20.015340.4402@iwarp.intel.com>
Date: 20 Mar 90 01:53:40 GMT
References: <1363@frankland-river.aaii.oz.au> <1364@frankland-river.aaii.oz.au> <7470@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
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In-Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)

In article <7470@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>, lwall@jpl-devvax (Larry Wall) writes:
| Randal would probably just say $buggy'buf all over.  But it's easier to
| use the package declaration.  Especially if you use the package name above. :-)

Well, no, it was an *afterthought* on that multidim code, because I
was running into the strange local() problems, and thought that
snarfing it into its own package would help.  It did. :-)

print "Just another Perl hacker," x "1no time to write a cute signature";
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