From: Adam Roben <aroben@apple.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 21:03:22 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-svn: Don't rely on $_ after making a function call
Message-ID: <3601FA1C-CDB1-4BFE-93D7-8FF1A79DCF45@apple.com>
In-Reply-To: <20070425205948.GA12375@untitled>

On Apr 25, 2007, at 1:59 PM, Eric Wong wrote:

> Adam Roben <aroben@apple.com> wrote:
>> Many functions and operators in perl set $_, so its value cannot  
>> be relied upon
>> after calling arbitrary functions. The solution is simply to copy  
>> the value of
>> $_ into a local variable that will not get overwritten.
>
> Does this fix any particular bug?  It looks right to me
> and makes the code easier to follow, so;

    Yes, I was getting warnings that $_ was uninitialized in the eq.  
Sorry for not mentioning that.

-Adam