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On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 10:58:34PM -0800, Larry Wall wrote:
> : while( my $line = <FILE> ) {
> : ...
> : }
>
> That still works fine--it's just that $line lives on after the while.
This creeping lexical leakage bothers me. While it might make the
language simpler, the proliferation of left-over lexicals seems
sloppy.
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