R. Joseph Newton wrote: > > Well, I tried it, and a few permutations thereof, and the only real > difference I see with our is that the our makes the inner declaration > a comment.
It only works that way if you've also declared the variable with 'our' at file level. That way it's just a package variable that's visible everywhere in the file. 'our' should be used only in those blocks that need access to the variable, otherwise there's no point in a declaration more local than the outermost level. > Without the declaration of a local [not Perl local, just > local] variable in the block, the block would have full access to the > variable, anyway. > Again, only if you declare it at file level or don't 'use strict'. > > This has certainly been most instructive. It also makes me very > leery about declaring anyvariables outside of function definitions. > I just don't see any real porotection coming from the my keyword > alone. I'm very concerned that you don't understand the use of 'our' properly. Did you get my previous post in this thread? You followed up with a post to Paul but I think you may have meant me as you quoted another of my posts. There was an example in there that demonstrated using 'our' to implement a C-like 'static' variable. I suggest trying again, but use 'our' only locally to blocks. And believe that there is more use to it than you've found. Keep asking questions until you get there :-) Cheers, Rob -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
