[OT] do { local *FH; }

[Matt Sergeant]

On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Paul wrote:

> Learned a new trick:
>  my $fh = do { local *FH; };

I've had trouble using this under mod_perl - bizarre results with it not
actually being lexical and not closing the file. I had to resort to using
Apache->gensym in the end. Has anyone else seen the same?

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