The problem is definitely that the whole line "my $foo = "blah" if $var;" isn't getting executed (including the my $foo declaration) ... you can see the expected behavior if you change it to : "my $foo; $foo = "blah" if $var;"

But a global $foo isn't getting set -- otherwise "-w/use strict" would complain.

I honestly have no idea what in the semantic rules of Perl describes the behavior you are seeing. Why this compiles, and does what it does without complianing is beyond me. I would expect it to complain the same way this does... 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
sub mycode {
  my $var = $_[0];
  my $foo = "blah" if $var; 
  print "foo is $foo\n" if $foo;
  $bar ||= "BAR";
}
mycode("test");
mycode();
mycode();
mycode();

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In reply to Re: Re: static-like persistence of my variable due to trailing conditional by hossman
in thread static-like persistence of my variable due to trailing conditional by meonkeys

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