Re: RFC 12 (v3) variable usage warnings

[Steve Fink]

> >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;

It happens when I don't bother to declare something. My company has
several dozen machines with an 'our'-less perl, and 'use vars qw($x)' is
a pain. As is $My::Package::Name::x.