I have been playing around with Pugs ever since the project started. I have recently been looking over the examples and trying to write Perl6 scripts of my own. I've run into one frustration so far. When I assign a value to a variable like this:

$learning = 'perl6';

I get the following error message from Pugs:

*** Undeclared variable: "$learning"

Now if I change my code to:

my $learning = 'perl6';

it works fine. Are you not going to be able to simply declare variables by creating them as you were in Perl5? I now a lot of people recommend always using my anyway, but I really like the option of either way. Is there anyway to turn off the option in Pugs that causes an error with the first example?

In reply to Variable Declaration in Perl6 by goober99

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