Abigail wrote
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 07:58:03AM +0100, Pense, Joachim wrote:
> > that is often recommended in the Perl community. I think it
> is easy to see
> > which version looks elegant and which one kludgy:
> >
> > (Quoted from earlier in the thread, reformatted:)
> >
> > | sub x {
> > | static $vbl ;
> > | ...
> > |
> >
> > | {
> > | my $vbl;
> > | sub x {
> > | ...
> > | }
> > | }
>
>
> IMO, not doubt the latter looks far more elegant - as that
> enables your
> 'static' variable to be shared with more than one function. Something
> you can't do with a 'static' declared variable inside a function.
>
Mighty != elegant.
Joachim
