On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, Tim Musson wrote:
> 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?
Yes, that's exactly what it is.
> 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.
Note also that an object also has it's own scope -- variables in a class
are only visible inside the methods of that class.
-- Brett
http://www.chapelperilous.net/btfwk/
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