Hi,

I am learning the perl. During my very baby-walk coding, I kept getting this error:

BEGIN not safe after errors--compilation aborted at /System/Library/Perl/5.12/Carp/Heavy.pm line 4. Compilation failed in require at /Users/apple/Library/Application Support/TextMate/Managed/Bundles/Perl.tmbundle/Support/exception_handler.pm line 30.

My actual codes:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;

use warnings;

my $pi = 3.141592654;

print "what is the radius?\n";

my ($radius)= ;

$radius = <STDIN>;

chomp $radius;

my ($circ) = 2* $pi * $radius;

print "the circumference of a circle of $radius is $circ.\n";

Thanks

In reply to very 1st question for my baby-walk coding by isisgu

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