in reply to Re^9: open(), go away with bad way, or fail with the right way?
in thread open(), go away with bad way, or fail with the right way?

I didn't provide the example and you are indeed nitpicking and totally missing the point.

Something like 

{ 
    local $x = $x;
    ...
}

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Is valid, useful and well documented code.

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