Hi all, straight out of the Learning Perl book (3rd edition, page 275)
is this code:

my @numbers;
push @numbers, split while <>;
foreach (sort { $a <=> $b } @numbers) {
   printf "%20g\n", $_;
}

This works flawlessly.  My question is why can't I put that variable
declaration in the push function?  like this:

push my @numbers, split while <>;
foreach (sort { $a <=> $b } @numbers) {
   printf "%20g\n", $_;
}

When I run this code, nothing is output.  It seems I see this kind of
variable-declaration-in-a-function all the time.  Why is it not
working here?

--Errin

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