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Postings from November 1999
Tom Christiansen writes: > > >This is an implementation detail. IIRC, it is documented that frame > >is replaced, not goes away. What happens/should-happen with locals > >during "replacement" is debatable. > > If something has been replaced, it has gone away and is no longer there. > If I replace your dog with a cat, you would not expect your new feline > to bark; the dog is long gone. Whether a person ceases to exist after a sex change operation is highly debatable. > >What happens, however, is making some "normal programming constructs" > >much harder to implement. > > Such as? In the particular case I needed it was local @ISA = (@ISA, 'DynaLoader'); goto \&DynaLoader::bootstrap; Ilya