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

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Re^4: local vs my
by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Sep 03, 2002 at 13:23 UTC
    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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