The lexical/unintented-global problem needs a little more visualization. In the chatterbox, some are really confused about this part. 

# Not using strict, for demonstration.

sub at_top {
    print "Foo is: $foo\n";
}

# This is the body of the script, where a head-to-tail flow is in effe
+ct
my $foo = "I wanted this to be visible only for the body, not all of m
+y subs!";

at_top();     # "Foo is: "
at_bottom();  # "Foo is: I wanted ..."

sub at_bottom {
    # We're in the same lexical scope!!
    print "Foo is: $foo\n";
}

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Using strict, but not getting a warning? Yep, because $foo is an "unintended global" (thank you for giving the phenomenon a name, demerphq) 
use strict;

my $foo = "blah";
my $bar = "hello, world!";

sub mistake {
    print $foo; # Works, and prints blah
}

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Nabgure bar vs lbh qvq fb jvgubhg ernqvat n znahny svefg.
-- vs lbh hfrq OFQ pnrfne ;)
    - Whreq

In reply to Re: Re: where do you put your subs by Juerd
in thread where do you put your subs by greenFox

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