On Thursday 20 July 2006 12:27 pm, Charles K. Clarkson wrote: > tom arnall wrote: > : Whatever happened to good old: > : > : my (@data,$result); > > Why declare these ... > > : @number = (1,2,3); > : $sum = 0; > > And then use these? > > Go ahead. Hit yourself upside the head. :) > > > Yet another reason to declare variables only as they are > first used. > >
and of course i didn't run the code after changing '$result' to '$sum', etc. apologies. but i still don't u'stand why people used the more difficult idioms in answer to the newbie's question. Tom Arnall north spit, ca -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
