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Postings from November 1999
"Moore, Paul" <Paul.Moore@uk.origin-it.com> wrote
> 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?
It certainly would be a bug if the optimiser did that. But experiment
shows that it doesn't confuse the concepts "undefined" and "uninitialised":
% perl -w
$x = 13;
{ undef $x;
local $x = undef;
$x = 12;
};
print $x;
__END__
Use of uninitialized value at - line 6.
Mike Guy