Re^4: How to Intercept Variable Access

The real fun starts with local:

sub do_stuff {
    local $CD = tempdir();

    croak "No Makefile found in $CD"
        unless -f 'Makefile';
    croak "No .git directory in $CD"
        unless -d '.git';
    ...
}
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Re^5: How to Intercept Variable Access by LanX (Saint) on Sep 16, 2024 at 14:31 UTC
Well yes if you want the full syntactic sugar of variables, including interpolation, localization and ... Though I'd probably prefer a module exporting both. A `cd` function and a magic `$CD` I haven't checked, but I seem to remember that shell languages like bash provide both too°. Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :) see Wikisyntax for the Monastery} Edit °) well almost > `PWD` A pathname of the current working directory `echo "$PWD"`	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re^5: How to Intercept Variable Access
by LanX (Saint) on Sep 16, 2024 at 14:31 UTC

Though I'd probably prefer a module exporting both. A cd function and a magic $CD

I haven't checked, but I seem to remember that shell languages like bash provide both too°.

Cheers Rolf
_{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)

see Wikisyntax for the Monastery}

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°) well almost

> PWD A pathname of the current working directory echo "$PWD"

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