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Re: Use of Carp outside of package won't compile...

by ikegami (Patriarch)
on Dec 18, 2007 at 16:43 UTC ( [id://657702]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Use of Carp outside of package won't compile...

Perl has two scoping mechanisms. Lexical scopes and packages. The key differences between the two are:
  • There is only one current package.

    ... package Foo; ... package Bar; ...
  • The program can be in multiple lexical scopes at a time, as long as they are nested.

    { my $foo; { my $bar; ... } ... }
  • The lexical state is cleared when the lexical scope is exited.

    for (1..2) { my $x; # New variable each time. print($x); }
  • The package state is persistent.

    package Foo; use Carp qw( carp ); carp('One'); package Bar; ... package Foo; carp('Two');
  • Since the lexical state ceases to exist when exited, it cannot be referenced from the outside.

  • The package state can be referenced from the outside

    package Foo; use Carp qw( carp ); carp('One'); package Bar; Foo::carp('Two'); package Foo; carp('Three');

The use directive itself doesn't know or care about scope. It's all about the code in the import function of the loaded .pm.

use pragma; changes bits in a lexically-scoped compiler variable.
use Module qw( function ); creates a function in the current package.

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