Re: RFC 12 (v3) variable usage warnings

[Michael Fowler]

On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 05:10:55PM -0600, Tom Christiansen wrote:
> >Which is silly, because you shouldn't have to say '$x = $x = 3' when you
> >mean '$x = 3'.  Just because there's a real reason behind it doesn't make it
> >any less silly.
> 
> I'd like to see where this can happen.  Sounds like someone forgot to
> declare something:
> 
>     our $x;
>     $x = 2;


    $x = 2;
    print ${"x"};

Maybe?  I don't know, he mentioned it being a problem in certain instances
when perl couldn't tell he was actually using the value more than once. 
I've been going under the assumption that this whole thing is without the
benefit of use strict; a one-liner, perhaps.


Michael
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