* Paul Makepeace [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002-11-27 08:53]:
perl apparently doesn't consider $d exists by the second $d and issues
an error. Can someone explain this? (Esp. in light of all this sequence
point talk.)
The entire statement ist compiled at a time; at this time,
$d is undeclared. The
Bart Lateur said:
On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 04:41:13 +, Paul Makepeace wrote:
$ perl -Mstrict -le 'print one if (my $d = 1) $d'
[or indeed if ((my $d = 1) $d) {...} ]
perl apparently doesn't consider $d exists by the second $d and issues
an error. Can someone explain this? (Esp. in light of
Text::Balanced is now a standard Perl 5.8.0 module, which seems
a good thing to me (though I have not used it before). Anyway, it
seems a handy tool for a chore I have parsing a configuration file.
I suppose I might use a bigger Parse::RecDescent hammer for this job,
or do it in some other way.
