I'm mostly interesting in localization of variables with lixical scope.
As you already point out, local acts on the symbol table of the respective package, i.e. on global variables. In your case, I don't see a way how you can have a single hash element automatically restored at the end of the block.

If this feature is really important to you, did you consider a package global variable declared with "our" (i.e. a lexically scoped global variable) as an alternative? However, I personally would restore the hash entries manually at the end of the block.

-- 
Ronald Fischer <ynnor@mm.st>

In reply to Re^3: use 'local' modifier to hashref element by rovf
in thread use 'local' modifier to hashref element by schetchik

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