WC -Sx- Jones wrote: > James Edward Gray II wrote: > > 1. You show a means of variable declaration that you say replaces my() > > when in fact it's equivalent to our(). > > > > 2. Your use of local() is scary at best. It looks like a step > > backwards in Perl history to me. local() is pretty misunderstood to > > begin with and I don't think we, of all people, should be adding to the > > problem. > > I guess I am think as a brick: > > #! /usr/bin/perl -T > > use strict; > use warnings; > > my $outside = 5;
Okay, you have hit on something here. Variables declared outside of any subroutine are indeed global to the script as a whole. They really do not do much to protect the varaiable. This is why it is a good idea to limit the number of variables declared outside of subroutines to a bare minimum. Joseph -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
