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in thread local() magic with hash entry?

local $self->{foo} = 'bar';
i have been programming Perl for more than seven years now, but until today i didn't know that you can localize hash elements, if the hash itself is a lexical variable. nice =)

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Re^3: local() magic with hash entry?
by Hue-Bond (Priest) on Jul 09, 2006 at 13:09 UTC

    Not just lexicals:

    our %hash=(0..5);
{
  local $hash{2}=4; 
  print "in:  2 => ", $hash{2}, "\n";
}
print "out: 2 => ", $hash{2}, "\n";
__END__
in:  2 => 4
out: 2 => 3

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