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Re: Exotic bug in local?

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From:
Nathan Torkington
Date:
March 22, 2000 21:23
Subject:
Re: Exotic bug in local?
Message ID:
14553.43383.113296.943731@prometheus.frii.com
Tom Christiansen writes:
> I can understand that it destroys them if you say
> 
>     $#a = 4;
> 
> But I don't understand why it pretends not have seen the local().

Me neither.  If you print
  \$#a
you'll see that it doesn't change inside the block after the local().
That's a sign that local() isn't successfully localizing it.

Nat

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