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On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 12:03:27AM +0100, Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote:
> The patch below solves this problem by moving this error message
> from compile-time to run-time, and allowing the construct
> C<local ${expression()}> as long as the expression() returns a
> string, and not a reference.
$ perl -le '$a=1; { $b="a"; local $$b = 4; $b = 5; ${"a"} = 2 } print ${"a"}'
1
(with your patch applied, of course)
If this is ok, why '$b=\$a; local $$b' isn't ?
Shouldn't 'local $symref' work only with constant strings, at least ?
I hope you don't mind my questions.
Regards
Adi
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