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From: tchrist@convex.com (Tom Christiansen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: recursion problems
Keywords: perl recursion local bug
Message-ID: <100264@convex.convex.com>
Date: 26 Feb 90 16:47:00 GMT
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Reply-To: tchrist@convex.Com (Tom Christiansen)
Organization: Convex Computer Corp, Richardson, TX
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I have a resursive subroutine with all local variables 
that is having problems with its return value.  Precisely,
it's saying it's returning a local @list, but when the
return value delivered back to the caller is actually @_[0],
the subroutine's first called-with parameter.

Has anyone else seen this?  When I isolate the routine
into a brief test-case, the problem goes away, as I 
find so often to be the case.  Larry, have you made
any fixes for patch9 that might be related to this problem?

--tom
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    Convex Computer Corporation                            tchrist@convex.COM
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