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Re: [MacPerl] MacPerl bugs?

At 23.08 -0400 1999.06.25, Simply Hao wrote:
>C.N.> The problem with this approach is it changes $/
>TIMTAODEE.  This is what I do:
>
>    my $separator = $/;
>    undef $/;
>    domylittlething;
>    $/ = $separator;

That's just a longer way of doing local().

  {
    local $/;
    doyopurlittlething;
  }  # $/ restored when block ends

I like dynamic scoping for stuff like this.  Matthias was recently
lamenting, though, that $/ was not per-filehandle like $| is.  He was also
wishing that you could make $/ a regex or coderef.  :)

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