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Postings from November 1999
Tom Christiansen <tchrist@jhereg.perl.com> writes:
>>$a = 5;
>>sub a { print $a }
>>sub b {local $a = 9; goto &a}
>>b;
>
>>This still prints 5... :-(
>
>And this is a problem exactly how?
>
>b()'s frame goes away.
One could expect the frame to stay until the "goto" returned ;-)
>So its local view of $a
>went away.
>
>I do not find this behaviour astonishing.
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Nick Ing-Simmons <nik@tiuk.ti.com>
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