No real advantage, maybe disadvantages. The very difference is that in your approach the programmer has to create package Foo explicitly, while in my toy I wanted to let the user define globals using some "service" from a module. This is probably where the "disadvantage" creeps in: the approach in vars::global is probably too easy, and allows uncontrolled spread of global variables definitions, while in your technique the programmer is kind of obliged to confine all globals together, which leads to better control (and less global proliferation, by application of lazyness).

If my technique were useful... I think we would have had vars::global in CPAN a long, long time ago ;)

Flavio
perl -ple'$_=reverse' <<<ti.xittelop@oivalf

Don't fool yourself.

In reply to Re^2: Global variables by polettix
in thread Global variables by polettix

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