One could spend hours telling you how dangerous using perl is when you use the shebang line.

Yes, all the Perl vets will spend hours telling you why not to use softrefs. Of course, you're more clever than them.

And CGI is for whimps too, isn't it? You're more clever than Lincoln Stein, and Ovid who spent hours explaining why handrolled CGI parameter parsers are dangerous doesn't have a clue either.

Nor have you understood what local does, either. You want my $in = $_[0]; there, and if you knew what it does, you would have known that local $$lname = $lvalue; has to fail (and why) at first glance.

I downvoted your note and was shocked to see people had upvoted you.

Makeshifts last the longest.

In reply to Re^4: Many strings make one variable? by Aristotle
in thread Many strings make one variable? by heezy

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