on Fri, 19 Apr 2002 00:05:58 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Pradeep Sethi)
wrote:
> Obviously they're treated differently by perl because $::MY_VARIABLE
> does not equal $MY_VARIABLE.
$::MY_VARIABLE is a shorthand for $main::MY_VARIABLE, which is a (global)
package variable.
A variable declared with 'my' is a lexical variable, or a 'real local'
variable.
See M-J. Dominus' article 'Coping with Scoping' at
<http://perl.plover.com/FAQs/Namespaces.html>
for an excellent introduction to this kind of stuff.
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felix
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