On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 05:11:59PM -0500, Mark Jason Dominus wrote: > I think we may be discussing different things. I said nothing at all > about 'local'. The subject of this thread says: 'local ${"FOO"} does not work' :-) ... and it will not work even if the peephole optimizer reduce ${"FOO"} to ex. gvsv *FOO - because the ckeck which causes Perl to die is made _before_ the peephole optimizer has the chance to optimize anything. Please correct me if I'm wrong. AdiThread Previous | Thread Next