[sf-perl] oddity with an exported and localized variable
Joe Brenner
doom at kzsu.stanford.edu
Fri Nov 27 12:19:22 PST 2009
yary <not.com at gmail.com> wrote:
> Based on the perlsub section "Temporary Values via local()":
> A "local" modifies its listed variables to be "local" to the
> enclosing block, "eval", or "do FILE"--*and to any subroutine
> called from within *that block*. A "local" just gives
> temporary values to global (meaning package) variables. It
> does not create a local variable. This is known as dynamic
> scoping. ...
> Emphasis is in the original perldoc. So it looks like a bug to me too.
It seems as though "local" is acting on the symbol table entry
rather than on the thing pointed at by the symbol table.
I tried finding a way to reproduce this without using Exporter
without any luck. If you use local on something manually
aliased like so:
*Garbagio::Fantastico::Smellier::stuff = *Garbagio::Fantastico::stuff;
It effects both sides of it as you would expect.
I'm beginning to suspect a bug in some perl optimization for dealing
with Exporter code.
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