On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 06:09:22 -0700, Christopher Spears wrote: > I've been reading the following docs on Perl > subroutines: > > http://perldoc.perl.org/perlsub.html#Persistent-Private-Variables > > I just read the section on local variables and am > completely confused. What is a local variable? How > is local $x different from my $x?
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