Can someone provide a use-case for this that makes sense?

I thought surely the use case is perl4, but it wasn't available in perl4, it became available in perl5, and looks to be http://perldoc.perl.org/perlapi.html#sv_reset exposed

It is barely used (one place) http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git?a=search&h=HEAD&st=grep&s=sv_reset

I guess, larry thought, it may be useful for Perl ... but it turned out to not be useful for Perl, and its kind of deprecated :)

Maybe the thinking was where  local $foo_one, $foo_bar,...; can get tedious,  reset 'f'; saves typing,

anyway, reset simply appeared from larry with perl5a2 20 years ago

For comparison of old cruft in perl see Re^2: Perl format line breaking, $FORMAT_LINE_BREAK_CHARACTERS apparently ignored

In reply to Re^4: reset function (not perl4) by Anonymous Monk
in thread reset function by waytoperl

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