> maybe local for hash values was implemented later than local for variables

Back in the days when I first learned that local also works for hash elements, I was very surprised. (How random! Why? ¹)

But now that I realize that every local is actually operating on hash elements, this finally makes a lot of sense. :)

(stash= symbol table hash, and a typeglob is very similar to a hash, just with a fixed number of slots)

Cheers Rolf
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¹) And most confusingly, why does it suddenly work for lexical hashes too???

DB<2> my %h=(a=>1); { local $h{a}=2; say %h}; say %h
a2
a1

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In reply to Re^2: 'local' for imported variables doesn't work as expected by LanX
in thread 'local' for imported variables doesn't work as expected by muthm

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