Ofer Inbar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Alex Krohn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> (mis)handles lexically scoped variables. This oddity only comes into
> play if you use a lexical variable in a block *and* a sub-block of
> that block, and you run that same code multiple times, and the values
> are not constant. What happens is that the variable in the sub-block
> becomes independentne in the outer block.
> ...
> book and the light clicked. Why perl behaves this way, I have no
> idea.
The clues are distributed with mod_perl....
mod_perl-1.21/faq/mjtg-news.txt
<quote>
*Everyone* finds it counterintuitive. The fact that it only generates
a warning rather than a hard error is part of the Perl Gods policy
of hurling thunderbolts at those so irreverent as not to use -w.
</quote>
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