in reply to Re^8: PadWalker's closed_over - but for our variables?
in thread PadWalker's closed_over - but for our variables?

> > The term "lexical" is messed up tho.

> No. Maybe imprecise since there two kinds of lexically-scoped variables, but not messed up.

perlglossary is explicit that our-vars are not "lexicals".

https://perldoc.perl.org/perlglossary#lexical-variable

A variable subject to lexical scoping, declared by my. Often just called a “lexical”. (The our declaration declares a lexically scoped name for a global variable, which is not itself a lexical variable.)

Cheers Rolf
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