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Wow, that really localizes $_ ? To me, it looks more like a straight assignment to $_. I would've expected something like:

sub foo { local $_ = shift; /foo/; }

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Re^4: Perl Programming guidlines/rules
by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Nov 27, 2002 at 15:38 UTC
    No, it doesn't localize, and I'm fairly certain that BUU was pointing out that failing to do so is dangerous.

    Makeshifts last the longest.

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