On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 5:57 AM, Octavian Rasnita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, > > I've tried the following script and it works fine: > > use strict; > my $text = 1; > my $text = 2; > print $text; > > Shouldn't perl disallow defining the $text variable a second time in the > same script if using "use strict"? Probably not, as already has been said. And, as said, the use of: use warnings; *will* warn you. Next shows a block or lexical scope (mask does not happen) versus when in the same scope (in global, not using a separate scope block) where mask can happen. #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; my $text = 1; # begin block next {my $text = 2; print "In block we have ",$text,"\n";} # block ended on previous line # so, next is outside of block print "1st Outside block we have ",$text,"\n"; my $text = 3; print "2nd Outside block we have ",$text,"\n"; # end -- Alan.