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Semantics, one man's hack is another's feature. I view it as a hack because it fulfills functionality missing from the language, i.e. a 'state' variable type (aka 'static') (and if it wasn't a missing feature then it wouldn't have been added).

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Re^4: my variables in a subroutine
by Anomynous Monk (Scribe) on Mar 23, 2009 at 16:38 UTC
    That's not a hack, it's a Design Pattern!
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