Re^2: Mysterious append failure.

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Ahh.. that looks like it makes sense. Was forgetting for a minute that declaring $b there would actually scope it inside the loop.

D'oh.

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Re^3: Mysterious append failure. by dave_the_m (Monsignor) on Dec 09, 2004 at 12:48 UTC
Was forgetting for a minute that declaring $b there would actually scope it inside the loop. This isn't quite true - the output of Deparse is wrong. The lexical is scoped wider than the loop, as can be seen here: `$ perl585 -le '$x=99; my $x = $_ for 1..3; print $x' $` [download] (Note that $::x isn't printed, the lexical $x is instead.) However, the initialising and releasing of $x is scoped to within the loop. That may be construed as a bug. There again, statement modifiers on my declarations are usally buggy, and are best avoided. Dave.	[reply] [d/l]

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Re^3: Mysterious append failure.
by dave_the_m (Monsignor) on Dec 09, 2004 at 12:48 UTC

Was forgetting for a minute that declaring $b there would actually scope it inside the loop.

$ perl585 -le '$x=99; my $x = $_ for 1..3; print $x'

$
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That may be construed as a bug. There again, statement modifiers on my declarations are usally buggy, and are best avoided.

Dave.

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