richardkchapman/HPCC-Platform — comment on commit c7011e3aee1d0847702a84dc9e565f609a77de90
File: testing/ecl/Regress/Engine.pm line 395
By rengolin:

You don't need to create the local variable, ```return $base``` is enough.

Perl has this nasty side effect of returning the last assigned value in a function that makes code like this remain for too long.