Re^5: Use of 'our' considered harmful

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Actually, your code closes the $dbh before you ever execute the query! Where as the our version doesn't. With the our version, the user can use $dbh in other functions, because $dbh is a global.

I'm not saying our is required to do this -- it isn't -- I'm just saying you broke the program by blindly switching to my.

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Re^6: Use of 'our' considered harmful by ysth (Canon) on Sep 24, 2004 at 20:37 UTC
closes $dbh??	[reply]
Re^7: Use of 'our' considered harmful by tilly (Archbishop) on Sep 26, 2004 at 07:35 UTC
I think he meant, "Closes over an environment with a specific copy of $dbh." And "Closes over" here refers to the process of creating a closure. He didn't mean that you're closing the database handle.	[reply]

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