Dont hit yourself over the head... if you're from my timezone, it's past 1
am, you're wondering why you cant sleep, picking thru some perl code,
reading slashdot, realising you've become a geek and decide to read some
'advanced perl programming' as a bedtime story... it's ok to make a little
mistake then ;-)
Jos
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Jos I. Boumans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 1:07 AM
Subject: Re: Re[3]: Best practice for config file use?
> At 12:44 AM 6/28/01 +0200, Jos I. Boumans wrote:
> >use strict;
> >require 'config.pl';
> >use vars qw($usr $pwd $host);
> >print $usr, $pwd, $host;
> >
> >this runs with no errors whatsoever....
> >
> >what i DO want is a trailing ' at the "$pwd = 'bar'; " thing
>
> Sigh, yeah... two mistakes in one hour. Because the strictness is
> lexically scoped and therefore doesn't extend to config.pl. I'm just used
> to putting "use strict" into every file and requiring them at compile
time,
> is all.
>
> >Jos
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Peter Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >To: "Jos I. Boumans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Tim Musson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
> ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 12:37 AM
> >Subject: Re: Re[3]: Best practice for config file use?
> >
> >
> > > At 12:15 AM 6/28/01 +0200, Jos I. Boumans wrote:
> > >
> > > >1. script that holds global vars, let's call it config.pl
> > > >
> > > >### config.pl ###
> > > >$usr = 'foo';
> > > >$pwd = 'bar;
> > > >$host = 'bleh.com';
> > > >
> > > >### in your script you'd say: ###
> > > >require 'config.pl'
> > > >use vars qw($usr $pwd $host); #these 3 vars are 'used' by your config
> >file,
> > > >thus poluting your namespace that way
> > >
> > > I think you want the "usr vars" to precede the "require".
> > > --
> > > Peter Scott
> > > Pacific Systems Design Technologies
> > > http://www.perldebugged.com
> > >
> > >
>
> --
> Peter Scott
> Pacific Systems Design Technologies
> http://www.perldebugged.com
>
>
