Fellow monks,

Given the following code: 

use strict;

my ($x, $y, $z);

sub dispSymbols {

    my($hashRef) = shift;
    my(%symbols);
    my(@symbols);

    %symbols = %{$hashRef};
    @symbols = sort(keys(%symbols));

    foreach (@symbols) {
        printf("%-10.10s| %s\n", $_, $symbols{$_});
        }
    }

dispSymbols(\%main::);

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The variables $x, $y and $z are not showing up in the dump. However if I change the my to our then they do show up. The rest of the symbol table does show up as I expected.

Can someone please explain to me why this is happening?

Thanks in advance!

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In reply to Dumping symbol table shows variables declared with our but not my by Popcorn Dave

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