RE: [ID 19991114.001] dangerous behavior from local

From: Ronald J Kimball [mailto:rjk@linguist.dartmouth.edu]
> > It looks to me as if it did localize $/ -- but only _after_ 
> > storing undef into it. Oops!
> > 
> 
> That was my guess, too, but further tests don't seem to be 
> consistent with that conclusion:

Could it be that Perl is
  1. Storing undef into $/
  2. Looking at the local()
  3. "Realising" that, as $/ is undefined, it is a new variable
     and so localising is "unnecessary", therefore not doing it.

Ie, could it be an optimiser bug?

Paul.

• [ID 19991114.001] dangerous behavior from local by pimlott
• RE: [ID 19991114.001] dangerous behavior from local by Moore, Paul
• Re: [ID 19991114.001] dangerous behavior from local by M.J.T. Guy
• Re: [ID 19991114.001] dangerous behavior from local by M.J.T. Guy
• Re: [ID 19991114.001] dangerous behavior from local by Tom Christiansen
• Re: [ID 19991114.001] dangerous behavior from local by Tom Phoenix
• Re: [ID 19991114.001] dangerous behavior from local by Nick Ing-Simmons
• Re: [ID 19991114.001] dangerous behavior from local by Andrew Pimlott
• Re: [ID 19991114.001] dangerous behavior from local by Ronald J Kimball
• Report 19187 by H.Merijn Brand