On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 1:17 PM, Manfred Lotz <manfred.l...@arcor.de> wrote: > But if I'm using it in a subroutine then 'use bytes' is only effective > in the scope of the subroutine, isn't it? That is how I would use it > preferably.
Yeah, it appears that way. "use" is a compile time event (require is runtime) so I was thinking it wouldn't be scoped that way but it does appear that it stays in scope so you don't need belts and a suspender, er, the 'no bytes' un-pragma. -- a Andy Bach, afb...@gmail.com 608 658-1890 cell 608 261-5738 wk -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/