> Well I am very new to Perl. I have read Oreily's > Camel book, but haven't found any thing about > my that is used in any of the code. > > e.g > my $var > > What is my supposed to be over here? > >
Since the Camel is a reference more than a tutorial and because it is already a pretty thick tome many of the examples in it will not include 'my' as that is really a best practice not an absolute necessity to demonstrating code in a reference setting, so to make example code shorter and easier to understand. Having said that, it *is* a best practice and you *should* be doing, use strict; use warnings; In all of your code, which will necessitate the use of 'my' very often. http://perl.plover.com/FAQs/Namespaces.html Is an excellent article on scoping in Perl, and should clear things up with regards to 'my'.... come back if you have further questions, http://danconia.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
