--- "A. Pagaltzis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Note that `local $_` has issues when tieing or other magic are
> involved. If you want to topicalise something, use `for` instead.
> That’s not viable in this case, though, since `for` doesn’t
> return a well-defined value and you need that for `grep`. Better
> just use a lexical variable.

Thanks for this and the other comments.  Great points. 
 
Cheers,
Ovid

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