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in thread optimization - exists should return a reference

That won't do what you think it does. Remove the my for it to work.

Abigail

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Re: Re: optimization - exists should return a reference
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Jan 15, 2003 at 14:02 UTC

    Good point. I'm always doing that in real code too. I substituted $_ for the purposes of the example, but I realise that may not be useful in many situations.

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