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I don't like to declare the same variable more than once.
For those times I prefer to use
I agree, it does indeed look like globals has become... something else. But you can relax--they haven't. They're still totally separate. What our() does is to declare a lexical alias for the global variable.
Cheers,
-Anomo
Oops. It's so easy to slip... But on the other hand, you have to misspell the variable throughout all of &write_cache, which usually isn't too probable. But for short routines--like get/set routines--it's a not too far-fetched scenario.sub read_cache { our %CACHE; ... } sub write_cache { our %CACHF; ... }
For those times I prefer to use
The only reason I want more education is that I learned about lexical and package variables as totally separate!!! and now they ain't... Which is cool, but also pretty bizarre.{ our %CACHE; sub read_cache { ... } sub write_cache { ... } }
I agree, it does indeed look like globals has become... something else. But you can relax--they haven't. They're still totally separate. What our() does is to declare a lexical alias for the global variable.
Cheers,
-Anomo
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