Re: Re: Re: local vs my

[davorg]

in reply to Re: Re: local vs my
in thread local vs my

Excellent point. But that is, of course, a relatively new innovation :)

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[Aristotle]

The innovation is only in the autovivification. It was awkwardly possible before as well, you just had to do the job yourself:

use Symbol;
my $fh = gensym;
open $fh, $filename;

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