in reply to Re^3: Variable being clobbered by a seemingly unrelated while loop
in thread Variable being clobbered by a seemingly unrelated while loop

Lexical variables can be localized - you just can't use the local keyword to do so.

Anonymous monk provides a good demonstration.

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