(c.)
But, contrary to what I would have expected from ike's above, dumping $rv from
perl -d strictscript.pl
tells me that $rv remains undef right up to exit.
Clarification anyone? ysth cites the doc, but that leaves me unclear what the conditions/criteria are that trigger the variant behaviours. Or must we simply accept that undefined behavior cannot ever be predicted?

Update: ikegami and I are both testing against AS on 'doze, but I'm using 5.8.6 build 811 here on (bastardized) w2k.

However, re dave_the_m's below, don't recall (and too lazy to hunt up now) anything in the delta docs that suggested any change in scoping that was obviously relevant here.

dave_the-m's observation "that might change" (understood as: "future vers may not behave the same way") summarizes my previous understanding of "undefined behavior" but the diff between ike's results and mine, on systems with no-known-relevant delta suggests something more akin to "random behaviour."

In reply to Re: my Scope Pop Quiz by ww
in thread my Scope Pop Quiz by saintmike

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