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> So everyone else thinks it's good style?

This is pluralistic Perl and not a "benevolent dictatorship"!

(You will always find someone arguing, because of "side effects" or whatever. ;-)

But honestly as Davido explained, it's fundamental, if you skip these feature it's not Perl anymore.

Cheers Rolf

( addicted to the Perl Programming Language)

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Re^4: my and scope
by davido (Cardinal) on Mar 28, 2013 at 22:43 UTC

    Indeed, it is fundamental. Were it not for returning references safely, we wouldn't have closures, and we wouldn't have blessed reference based objects.


    Dave

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