That is not true. No name is required. The {} set the scope of the local. For my demo below, I used an "our" variable, package scope. A Perl Global like $/ acts similar. You cannot localize a "my" variable.

I guess you can think of a local var as sort of like creating a stack of that variable. The local statement is like a "push" and when you exit the scope of the local, that is like a "pop". Rough analogy, but that is descriptive of the behavior. 

#!usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;


our $x = 1;  #a package variable

{
   print "$x\n";  #prints 1
   local $x = 99;
   print "$x\n";  #prints 99
}

print "$x\n";  #prints 1, back to before the "local"

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In reply to Re^3: Scope of $/ by Marshall
in thread Scope of $/ by agarrubio

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