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One can also make the same claim about $DBI::errstr ... globals may be "Bad Things"(tm), but it's not as if they're unusable.

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Re^4: File::Find considered hard?
by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Mar 15, 2004 at 20:02 UTC
    Of course $DBI::errstr comes with exactly the same caveats. The fact that File::Find::find() is not reentrant because of its use of package variables f.ex can be very annoying, and the same goes for $DBI::errstr in modular code. Just like $_ clobbering issues and what other commonly encountered cases of being bit in the rear by use of package variables there are.

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