Once in a while I repeat saying something like

"Perl doesn't stop to surprise me!"

And I always hope the intervals between these moments will get bigger...

But now... oh man ... this reset builtin is really scary! 

  DB<132> @x=(4,2);$x=42; $y=0; 
          while ($y++<3) {
             $x=$y; 
             print "$x -" ; 
             reset('x') if $y>1 ;
             print " $x : @x\n"; 
          }
1 - 1 : 4 2
2 -  : 
3 -  :

[download]

IMHO it doesn't "reset" at all, it just deletes all variables of the glob *x without deleting the glob.

Only delete $main::{'x'} is more radical...

o_O WTF !?!

Cheers Rolf

( addicted to the Perl Programming Language)

update

Me thinks this must be a relict of one-liner hacking. Anything else is just to dangerous..

In reply to Re^2: reset function (never) by LanX
in thread reset function by waytoperl

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