Yes I know what 'local' does, but this topic has nothing to do with the use of local. Please refrain from confusing people at a lower level than yourself, who need to know, for example, how global variables work!

You could have said, for example, 'Although globals including filehandles do not go out of scope, this behaviour can be avoided using the local keyword' (and then put your example).

Update: in your second example your variable is specifically of lexical scope, but there is an underlying global that gets assigned to $fh which doesn't go out of scope. OK looks like there's a trick going on here. $fh becomes \*{'::$fh'} which is a global that depends on a local. So although the filehandle isn't closed, it does become lexically inaccessible.

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In reply to Re^4: Scoping question - will file handle be closed? ("global") by anonymized user 468275
in thread Scoping question - will file handle be closed? by Monk::Thomas

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