Re: [ID 20000124.001] Refcount problem

[Tom Christiansen <tchrist@chthon.perl.com>]

>local(*FOO) has always localized the contents of *FOO (the GvGP in
>gutspeech).  In fact, this is the behavior that makes local(*FOO)
>also localize $FOO, %FOO, @FOO and the filehandle FOO.

I believe that the standard way to deal with this has been to use
*FH not \*FH.  Notice how the examples in perldata on returning 
local handles do not use backslash.

--tom

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