in reply to (tye)Re: "use vars" will remain (Re: Win32 EXPORT_OK problems)
in thread Win32 EXPORT_OK problems

Actually, I think our has one other advantage over use vars, aside from the very minor speed improvement. With our, as with my, declaration and initialization can be done in one step: 
my $num = 7;
our $str = 'Hello';

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whereas with use vars, declaration and initialization must always be separate steps: 
use vars qw/ $str /;
$str = 'Hello';

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(tye)Re2: "use vars" will remain (Re: Win32 EXPORT_OK problems)
by tye (Sage) on Dec 27, 2000 at 01:48 UTC

    declaration and initialization can be done in one step

    Ah, yes, but should they? Even I were to use our, I'd still be writing code like: 

    our $var;
BEGIN { $var= "Hello"; }

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    to avoid the race condition between the compile-time declaration of the variable and the (possibly very delayed or non-existant) run-time initialization of the variable. This is only rarely a problem, but it still happens often enough that this habit has saved me enough time that I continue it.

            - tye (but my friends call me "Tye")
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