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From:
Zefram
Date:
June 2, 2008 07:54
Subject:
Re: AW: IO::Dir destructor
Message ID:
20080602145417.GA24872@fysh.org
Bram wrote:
>Why do you localise $. ?

What you localise is which filehandle it refers to, not the value,
of course.  You localise it in case something called from the destructor
accesses a filehandle, which would change which filehandle $. reports on.

-zefram
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