Re: Re: Setting lexicals in a BEGIN block.

The vars pragma is not block-scoped, but file scoped

In fact, the documentation is a little off on that one. The vars pragma is neither block nor file scoped, it is package scoped.

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Re: Setting lexicals in a BEGIN block. by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Jun 21, 2002 at 09:25 UTC
It's better to say that it isn't scoped at all. All the `vars` pragma does is, after some checking of arguments, is using the fully qualified variable in a dummy statement. There is no scoping involved. Abigail	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: Setting lexicals in a BEGIN block. by Anonymous Monk on Jun 21, 2002 at 10:30 UTC
By package scoped I mean that unqualified use of a variable declared with `use vars qw($foo)` follows package boundaries: 1) unqualified use of `$foo` is not allowed inside another package (even in the same file as the declaration), and 2) unqualified use of `$foo` is allowed anywhere within the same package (even in different files from the declaration).	[reply] [d/l] [select]