Hi Owen, On Saturday 30 October 2010 20:56:57 Owen Chavez wrote: > A straightforward question I hope. > > Can someone explain why the following code runs without a hitch: > > #!C:/strawberry/perl/bin/perl.exe > use strict; > use warnings; > > my $testvar = "TEST"; > &testsub1();
Don't use leading ampersands in subroutine calls: http://perl-begin.org/tutorials/bad-elements/#ampersand-in-subroutine-calls Also go over the rest of the page > > sub testsub1 { > print "The following should read \"TEST\": $testvar \n"; > } > > The difference between the two examples is that in the first one you've declared the lexical variable "$testvar" before its first use in the code, and in the second one you've declared it afterwards. This is not allowed by "use strict;". You'll get a similar warning if you do: [code] sub my_subroutine { print $myvar, "\n"; my $myvar = "One Two"; } [/code] Same thing really. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ "Star Trek: We, the Living Dead" - http://shlom.in/st-wtld <rindolf> She's a hot chick. But she smokes. <go|dfish> She can smoke as long as she's smokin'. Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
