At 09:22 PM 6/15/01 -0400, Brett W. McCoy wrote:
>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.
A useful resource:
http://nightflight.com/foldoc-bin/foldoc.cgi?query=scope
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Peter Scott
Pacific Systems Design Technologies
http://www.perldebugged.com
