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Re: An eighth use of local

by Ovid (Cardinal)
on Dec 01, 2005 at 19:27 UTC ( [id://513394]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to An eighth use of local

My most common use of local deals with recursive method calls:

sub foo { my $self = shift; local $self->{some_val} = $self->get_val; # do a bunch of stuff $self->foo; }

This seems strange, but I do find this useful at times. It allows me to temporarily overwrite a value which needs to be preserved for a given stack frame.

Cheers,
Ovid

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