On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 5:15 AM, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> On Friday 21 May 2010 07:43:07 HACKER Nora wrote:
>> I still have a (meta) question referring to your advice to set it up as
>> a global variable: I read that "Global variables are bad [...]
>> (http://perldoc.perl.org/perlfaq7.html) - so when
Hi Nora,
On Friday 21 May 2010 07:43:07 HACKER Nora wrote:
> Hi Shlomi,
>
> Thanks for your reply.
>
> > From a cursory look at your program, it seems that you can just set up
> > $mode
> > as a global variable, and keep it at that instead of just passing it
> > around.
> > Alternatively, maybe
Hi Thomas,
> Let's see if I understand this correctly:
>
> You have a global variable $mode that's deciding the mode of operation
> in your sub dblog(), to quote:
>
> > # DBLOG sub-function
> > sub dblog {
> >my ( $backup, $dbvers, $sdb ) = @_;
> >SWITCH: {
> >( $mode eq
HACKER Nora wrote:
> Obviously, my point wasn't clear enough, I'm sorry for that. The
> variable in the code extract that I'm really bothering about is the
> $sdb: It is needed in the SWITCH of a sub-function, but this construct
> only works if I pre-declare the $sdb in the calling function backup
Hi Shlomi,
Thanks for your reply.
> From a cursory look at your program, it seems that you can just set up
> $mode
> as a global variable, and keep it at that instead of just passing it
> around.
> Alternatively, maybe you'd like to define a class and keep the mode
> variable
> there as a propert
On Thursday 20 May 2010 13:52:58 HACKER Nora wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a programme for database backup / recovery / some other tasks
> with several modes (e.g. ackup etc.) in wich a certain function is
> called. In this function I do a SWITCH, depending on the mode that the
> main programme is st
Hello,
I have a programme for database backup / recovery / some other tasks
with several modes (e.g. ackup etc.) in wich a certain function is
called. In this function I do a SWITCH, depending on the mode that the
main programme is started with. In one of the cases of SWITCH (e.g.
ecovery) I use a
