Hmm. Nope, you ended up with a few broken ones: 
# Local variables: SCALAR,SCALAR,... 
my $x, $y, $z; 
...
my $filename = "/path/to/file", 
        $filemode = "immolate", 
        $opmode   = "seek", 
        $filetype = "image/gif";

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Neither of those declare locally anything but the first var. You'd have to do something like: 
my $x, my $y, my $z;

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Just think of my as a really high precedence prefix operator that must appear before an lvalue, and you'll have the right mental model. But to figure the scalar-vs-arrayness of the rest of the expression, throw away all the my's first.

My preference is one variable per my declaration, unless it's a bunch of scalars and an optional terminating array being fed from a list (like a subroutine argument grab).

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker

In reply to Re: Re: scalar my vs list my by merlyn
in thread my $var = ''; vs. use constant VAR => ''; by antihero

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