On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 9:25 PM, J. Peng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 1:58 AM, Chas. Owens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Because of a quirk in how the current and past versions of perl parsed > > and handled the statement. It is a mis-feature according to Larry. > > Chas, do you mean this is a bad style to declare and assign a variable > like below? > > > my $y=0; > my @x =(1,2,3) if $y; > print Dumper [EMAIL PROTECTED]; snip
I mean it is an abuse of a bug. The proper way to achieve that behavior is to either use the state function in 5.10 or closures in earlier versions. -- Chas. Owens wonkden.net The most important skill a programmer can have is the ability to read. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
