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If you had seen <c>my $MY_VAR</c> would you be baffled because you had not seen $MY_VAR defined anywhere? ;-)
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Anyway, it localizes the type glob <c>MY_VAR</c>. Before we had autovivifying refs to filehandles, "everyone" used plain filehandles instead of references to handles. This was (and is) a way to localize handles.
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