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in thread The latest & greatest in 5.8.x?

Can you explain why you find our indispensable?

To understand my existing preconceptions, see Why is 'our' good?.

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Re: Re: Re: The latest & greatest in 5.8.x?
by samtregar (Abbot) on Apr 21, 2004 at 02:29 UTC
    I find 'use vars qw()' to be hard on the fingers and even harder on the eyes, particulary as a twin to the very pretty my(). I use our() at the package scope where I'd otherwise 'use vars qw()', basically.

    I've played with using it to scope access to global data in shortish scripts, but I didn't find it all that useful.

    -sam