>>>>> "Stas" == Stas Bekman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Stas> Note that Perl 5.6.0 introduced a new our() pragma which works like
Stas> my() scope-wise, but declares global variables.
Stas> package MyPackage3;
Stas> use strict;
Stas> our @ISA = qw(CGI);
Stas> our $VERSION = "1.00";
Stas> 1;
Stas> which uses the same amount of memory as a fully qualified global
Stas> variable:
Stas> % perl -MGTop -MMyPackage3 -le 'print GTop->new->proc_mem($$)->size'
Stas> 1908736
You still need a note there that says that 5.6.0 is considered unusable
by conservative sysadmins, and until 5.6.1 has reached gold, you
should avoid using "our".
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