Re^3: An eighth use of local

in reply to Re^2: An eighth use of local
in thread An eighth use of local

It's a special case of something that's unmentioned: creating temporary values in aggregates.

That's a great point. If you missed it, consider this:

my $item = 'wibble';
my @things = qw /foo bar baz/;

local $things[1] = 'qux'; # Legal
local $item = 'wobble';   # Dies with 'Can't localize lexical variable
+ $item'
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-xdg

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