I have no explanation for the failure. I tried to replicate your behavior with 5.8.8 and 5.10.0 but my tests worked in every case I tried. My last test program was:

#use strict;
use warnings;

sub subfunction {
    foreach my $j (0..5) {
        my $SUB = 'testsub'.$j;
        *$SUB = sub { display($j); };
    }
}

sub display {
    my $x = shift;

    print "\$x = $x\n";
}

subfunction();

&testsub0();
&testsub1();
&testsub2();
&testsub3();
&testsub4();
&testsub5();

__END__
$x = 0
$x = 1
$x = 2
$x = 3
$x = 4
$x = 5

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Can you post a minimal running test script that demonstrates the bug unexpected behavior?

What version of perl and what platform?

In reply to Re^3: Global vs. local? by ig
in thread Global vs. local? by jpavel

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