in reply to Re: Re: Configuration files via require or do and my, local.
in thread Configuration files via require or do and my, local.

This: 

use vars qw( $foo );
$foo = 1;

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And this: 

our $foo = 1;

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Do the exact same thing. Though, "our" may not be available to you in Perl 5.005.

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•Re: Re: Re: Re: Configuration files via require or do and my, local.
by merlyn (Sage) on Mar 24, 2002 at 17:49 UTC
    They don't do the same thing when you put curly braces around them. Be careful with your word "same" there.

    -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker

    update: Since I managed to confuse a few people in the CB just now, let me add this:
    our is a lexical-scoped aliasing of package variable (in the current package), while use vars is a package-scoped relaxation of the normal use strict rules. You cannot universally swap one for the other: they have overlapping uses and meanings, but also distinct uses and meanings.
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