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in thread Is 'use vars' really obsolete?

Anonmonk responded:
It's like the chance of the planet spontaneously swapping magnetic poles. ;)

Which actually happens every half-million years or so. Just to put things in perspective.

Didn't I read that it was due or overdue any time now? *gulp*... To paraphrase a saying:

Just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean the poles might not switch soon... ;^)

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Re^10: Is 'use vars' really obsolete?
by Anonymous Monk on Sep 24, 2017 at 22:05 UTC
    Didn't I read that it was due or overdue any time now?
    There was a very short one just 40k years ago, and it usually takes hundreds of years to complete a flip. So don't worry about it.
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