On Oct 30, 1:51 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Oct 30, 2:50 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Lalli) wrote: > > > If there is no strict, 'our' is a no-op. > > Not entirely true. The scope of a variable declared with our is > different from one that's not needed to be declared because use strict > is not in use.
My, that's some mighty fine crow! YUUUUUMMMY! My bad.... Yes, 'our' spans package boundaries, which makes it not a no-op, just as Nobull said: $ perl -lwe' package Foo; $baz = "hello world"; print $baz; package Bar; print $baz; ' Name "Bar::baz" used only once: possible typo at -e line 6. hello world Use of uninitialized value in print at -e line 6. Compared to: $ perl -lwe' package Foo; our $baz = "hello world"; print $baz; package Bar; print $baz; ' hello world hello world I stand suitably humbled, chagrined, and better informed. Paul Lalli -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
