Re: More Scope related questions.

G'day curiousmonk,

Your question appears to have been answered in the responses you've already received. I might just point out that $a and $b were poor choices for your examples as they're special variables that don't require declaration. Here's an excerpt from perlvar:

$a

$b
Special package variables ... Because of this specialness $a and $b don't need to be declared (using use vars, or our()) even when using the strict 'vars' pragma. ...

-- Ken

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Re^2: More Scope related questions. by curiousmonk (Beadle) on Mar 29, 2013 at 07:22 UTC
Thanks, this was one thing I didn't know about. It just all boils down to reading documentation properly Just as you said `$ perl -e 'use strict;use Data::Dumper;{my @c=(0..10);$d=\@c} print Du +mper $d' Global symbol "$d" requires explicit package name at -e line 1. Global symbol "$d" requires explicit package name at -e line 1.` [download] Doesn't work, but `$ perl -e 'use strict;use Data::Dumper;{my @a=(0..10);$b=\@a} print Du +mper $b' $VAR1 = [ 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 ];` [download] Does	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re^2: More Scope related questions.
by curiousmonk (Beadle) on Mar 29, 2013 at 07:22 UTC

Thanks, this was one thing I didn't know about. It just all boils down to reading documentation properly

Just as you said

$ perl -e 'use strict;use Data::Dumper;{my @c=(0..10);$d=\@c} print Du
+mper $d'
Global symbol "$d" requires explicit package name at -e line 1.
Global symbol "$d" requires explicit package name at -e line 1.
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Doesn't work, but

$ perl -e 'use strict;use Data::Dumper;{my @a=(0..10);$b=\@a} print Du
+mper $b'
$VAR1 = [
          0,
          1,
          2,
          3,
          4,
          5,
          6,
          7,
          8,
          9,
          10
        ];
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