Re: lexical weirdness(?)

It looks like the my does not reset the variable value to undef if it is initialized through a test.

Those 2 snippets are not equivalent either:

foreach (1..2) { my $i; print "$i\n"; $i++; }
foreach (1..2) { my $i=0 if( 0); print "$i\n"; $i++; }

Now is this a bug or a feature?

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RE: Re: lexical weirdness(?) by Anonymous Monk on Oct 25, 2000 at 19:48 UTC
my $foo if 0; This is a "feature" that has been covered on p5p... when the "if" fails, the lexical variable is not re-allocated and so stays whatever it was. I believe the consensus was not to expect this feature to stick around.	[reply]
(tye)Re: lexical weirdness(?) by tye (Sage) on Oct 25, 2000 at 22:16 UTC
Well, it was an accident that some decided was a feature causing "the rest of us" to put them straight that this "feature" isn't something they should expect to never be "fixed". (: - tye (but my friends call me "Tye")	[reply]