Re: Introduction and question

[zentara <zentara1 sbcglobal net>]

On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:40:56 -0700 (PDT)
Sergei Steshenko <sergstesh yahoo com> wrote:


> One should have very special reason to use 'local' in Perl, I haven't had
> such a reason for probably more than 10 years.
>
> So, I suggest not to use 'local'.
>
> Likewise,
>
> "
> local *DIR;
> opendir DIR
> "
>
> should better be replaced with
>
> opendir(my $dh, $dir) or die "cannot open '$dir' directory";
>
> 'local' creates a global entity - why one would need this ?
>
> Regards,
>  Sergei.

Right you are. It was some old code I had, I should have looked
more closely, but it worked..... so I didn't look too close. :-)      

zentara


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