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Postings from November 1999
On Sun, 14 Nov 1999, Andrew Pimlott wrote:
> A coworker accidentally did:
>
> {
> local($/ = undef);
> ...
> }
>
> This did not localize $/ . I don't know what it did do.
It looks to me as if it did localize $/ -- but only _after_ storing undef
into it. Oops!
> There was no warning. Could I get a warning out of it?
Or, better yet, could perl simply Do The Right Thing?
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