Re: Re: changing package variables?

Thanks!
I was under the mistaken impression that doing

  use MYPACKAGE qw / sub1 /;
  use vars qw / $var1 /;

Would give me instance of $MYPACKAGE::var1 in my main package scope.
So what's the diffence between

  use vars qw / $var1 /;

and

  my $var1

?????? What was I thinking?

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Re: Re: Re: changing package variables? by arturo (Vicar) on Mar 05, 2003 at 15:55 UTC
In a nutshell :`my` does not declare a package variable. `use vars` does. There's a wealth of information on this topic in the Tutorials section of the site (subsection "variables"); I'll plug my Variable Scoping in Perl: the basics and Dominus' Coping With Scoping specifically. update adjusted the link to CwS to point directly to it. If not P, what? Q maybe? "Sidney Morgenbesser"	[reply] [d/l] [select]