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Re^4: Strange behavior: passing $1 to AUTOLOAD

by nobull (Friar)
on Sep 23, 2004 at 06:53 UTC ( [id://393137]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re^3: Strange behavior: passing $1 to AUTOLOAD
in thread Strange behavior: passing $1 to AUTOLOAD

The general rule is never, ever pass in $1 and its friends, as they're terribly ephemeral. Make copies and pass them in instead.
That's a good general rule but I'd still go for belt and braces.

If the API of a function doesn't say it treats its arguments as lvalues then it is good practice to make copies of the elements from @_. If you need to do any regex processing before you unpack @_ then wrap it in a block.

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