Re^3: Wrong idioms

Well, if you mess with your caller's variables, I agree. But if you want to use those variables for your own purposes, you can't help but let the callee also see the changed variables (because you can only localize the, not modify them in a lexical scope).

Perl 6 - the future is here, just unevenly distributed

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Re^4: Wrong idioms by Jenda (Abbot) on Apr 01, 2013 at 18:39 UTC
Don't call then! All advice you ever hear about changes to these variables says "change them only in the smallest possible scope and do not call anything that might expect them to be set to the normal values". Most of the variables are not changed too often so I would not sweat about it. The only one I see changed is $/ and the code usually looks like this: `my $contents = do {local $/; <HANDLE>;}` [download] or `my $contents; { local $/; $contents = <HANDLE>; }` [download] and the code implementing readline() for handles is the only one I would expect to check the value of $/. Jenda Enoch was right! Enjoy the last years of Rome.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^5: Wrong idioms by moritz (Cardinal) on Apr 01, 2013 at 19:21 UTC
All advice you ever hear about changes to these variables says "change them only in the smallest possible scope and do not call anything that might expect them to be set to the normal values". And yet, the authorotative source on all special variables contains no such warning. At least I couldn't find one by skimming over the interesting parts. Perl 6 - the future is here, just unevenly distributed	[reply]