On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 05:36:15PM +0100, A. Pagaltzis wrote: > * Abigail <abig...@abigail.be> [2006-12-16 09:55]: > > It's even more hateful that $" is a global variable and you > > can't put it in a namespace, or localize it. (And for the Perl > > weenies out there: local has its own list of hate). > > That had me boggling, so I checked. I'm not arguing the rest of > your points, but you *can* localise it.
Only in the Perl sense of 'localise'. It still means that if you use 'local' changing $" can effect lines of code far, far away >from the code setting it. You can't scope $" *lexically*, which means that the effect of $" isn't localized. Abigail
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