On Friday, January 4, 2002, at 02:48 AM, Gerald Richter wrote:
>> # Won't get cleaned up properly
>> local %foo;
>> tie %foo, 'Dummy', name => '%foo';
>
> local only make a copy of the original value and restores it at the end
> of
> the scope, so %foo will not destroyed, but restored at the end of the
> scope.
> I guess this is the reason my it still stays tied.
AMS just posted this small test case to p5p:
sub X::TIEHASH{bless{}}
{ local %x; tie %x, "X" } print tied %x ? "a" : "b";
5.004_03 prints "b", and 5.004_04 (and higher) prints "a". I think "b"
is the proper behavior, at least that's my opinion.
-Ken
