Hey Paul,
Friday, June 15, 2001, 6:50:02 PM, you wrote:
PJ> On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 06:07:38PM -0400, Tim Musson wrote:
>> Hey Brett,
>>
>> Friday, June 15, 2001, 4:28:05 PM, you wrote:
>>
>> BWM> Using "my" puts the variable into a lexical scope and keeps it
>> BWM> out of the global name space.
>>
>> What does lexical mean here? I looked it up in a dictionary, but
>> still am not sure how it applies.
PJ> It refers to scope. The lexical variable cannot be seen outside of
PJ> the scope in which it is declared. This can be determined during
PJ> lexical analysis.
Now I'm stuck on the word scope. Is that like keeping the variable
within a sub or foreach or while?
I can make Perl do what I want usually (just found this list, and it
has been a huge help!), but want to go to the next level. Which as I
see is is getting a firmer grasp of Perl, then move into OOP.
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