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Re: Regex match variables, threads, and recursion

From:
duff
Date:
November 5, 1999 10:30
Subject:
Re: Regex match variables, threads, and recursion
Message ID:
19991105123913.E29063@cbi.tamucc.edu
On Fri, Nov 05, 1999 at 10:21:54AM -0800, Gurusamy Sarathy wrote:
> Known bug.  See:
>   http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/1998-11/msg00648.html

Interesting.  I've never expected $1 et alia to be lexical and I've
always treated them as equivalent to "volatile" as in C.  Their values
can change at any time, if you need to keep them around for any
reason, store them somewhere.

-Scott
-- 
Jonathan Scott Duff
duff@cbi.tamucc.edu



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