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in thread Prorgam obliterates contents of files

http://perl.plover.com/local.html, as pointed out via Seven Useful Uses of <tt>local</tt>

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Re^4: Prorgam obliterates contents of files
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Dec 29, 2008 at 10:27 UTC

    #2 and #3 were obsoleted by 5.6 back in 2000.

    I wish the Perl guts Data::Alias requires become public. Then #4 would go away too.