Re: Dumping symbol table shows variables declared with our but not my

The variables you declared with my are lexically scoped variables.
They do not live in the package main, hence you cannot see them there;
That is what lexicals and the my-keyword are all about.

See Variable scoping in perldoc perlintro for a first glance
and Private Variables via my() in perldoc perlsub for better explanation of my.

Edit: added links to perlsub which has better documentation. And the following:
perldoc -f our says that the variable is part of the package.

Cheers, Sören

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Re^2: Dumping symbol table shows variables declared with our but not my by Popcorn Dave (Abbot) on Oct 11, 2004 at 02:36 UTC
Thanks for cleraring up my misconceptions. I was always under the assumption that if it's not in a module, it's in main:: Useless trivia: In the 2004 Las Vegas phone book there are approximately 28 pages of ads for massage, but almost 200 for lawyers.	[reply]
Re^3: Dumping symbol table shows variables declared with our but not my by revdiablo (Prior) on Oct 11, 2004 at 16:46 UTC
I was always under the assumption that if it's not in a module, it's in main:: That's true for package variables, but lexical variables (the kind you get when you use my) are not package variables. They don't live in any package at all.	[reply]