[perl #122829] Flipflop under recursion

On Mon Sep 22 18:13:16 2014, sprout wrote:
> perlop.pod states:
> 
> Each ".." operator
> maintains its own boolean state, even across calls to a subroutine
> that contains it.
> 
> While that is true and well-known, what few know is that recursive
> calls to the containing subroutine do not share that boolean state
> with the outer call.  What’s weirder is that each recursion level
> maintains its own state.  So, for instance, if you have a function
> calling itself recursively to the fifth level, the flip-flop operator
> evaluated at that level will not use the same state again until that
> function is called to that level again.

Fixed in 00e40766.

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Father Chrysostomos


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• [perl #122829] Flipflop under recursion by Father Chrysostomos via RT
• [perl #122829] Flipflop under recursion by Father Chrysostomos via RT