Re: [MacPerl][off topic] local & my (was Re:Any way to Tee...)

[pudge@pobox.com (Chris Nandor)]

At 14.19 1998.02.18, Mark Manning/Muniz Eng. wrote:
>For my part I'm now having to go back through some of the
>routines I built in Perl 4.0 and make sure the local
>commands are not causing problems because I thought that
>the LOCAL command was truly local.  :-)

The general rule of thumb is DO NOT ever use local unless you specifically
want to save and later restore the value of a global variable.

Have fun,

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