Re^4: reset function (not perl4)

Can someone provide a use-case for this that makes sense?

I thought surely the use case is perl4, but it wasn't available in perl4, it became available in perl5, and looks to be http://perldoc.perl.org/perlapi.html#sv_reset exposed

I guess, larry thought, it may be useful for Perl ... but it turned out to not be useful for Perl, and its kind of deprecated :)

Maybe the thinking was where local $foo_one, $foo_bar,...; can get tedious, reset 'f'; saves typing,

anyway, reset simply appeared from larry with perl5a2 20 years ago

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Re^5: reset function (not perl4) by dave_the_m (Monsignor) on Nov 21, 2013 at 09:08 UTC
I thought surely the use case is perl4, but it wasn't available in perl4, it became available in perl5 Nope, its been there since perl1: http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/blob/8d063cd8450e59ea1c611a2f4f5a21059a2804f1:/perl.man.2#l230 Dave.	[reply]