Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

When compiling my script with perlapp I see the following error: 
"my" variable $self masks earlier declaration in same scope at test.pl
+ line 204, <DATA> line 21937.

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$self is never used in my script but I do see it in several of the modules I'm using. Is there something I can do to prevent this from occuring? The error only shows up when attempting to run the exe and not the script itself. I assume it has something to do with the scope of $self in the exe.

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Re: "my" variable $self
by Hofmator (Curate) on Nov 09, 2006 at 14:00 UTC
    Just a shot into the blue ... is Spiffy involved anywhere in your code? Because this adds my $self=shift; statements into the code ...

    Update: Anonymous Monk answered in the meantime here, pointing back to his/her previous post. So Spiffy is involved ... it seems it doesn't play nice with perlapp ...

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      Spiffy is involved...whats the suggested method to remove the use of Spiffy from the module?
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        I very much doubt that you'll be able to remove Spiffy from the module. Spiffy tends to become very closely entwined with the code that uses it.

        I suggest that you report the problem to the author. Hopefully he'll then pass it on to the author of Spiffy.

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        <http://dave.org.uk>

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        -- Chip Salzenberg

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Re: "my" variable $self
by davorg (Chancellor) on Nov 09, 2006 at 13:28 UTC

    There seems to be some scoping confusion going on here. Please post a short (<30 lines) program that demonstrates this problem.

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      I appreciate any insight you may have. This is related to an earlier post regarding my sub error. Here is a simple script that re-creates the error using PerlApp: 
      use strict;
use warnings;

use WWW::Myspace;
use Contextual::Return::Failure;

my ($account, $password) = retrieve_acct_info();

my $myspace = WWW::Myspace->new($account,$password);

sub retrieve_acct_info {

    my $account = 'email';
    my $password = 'password';

    return ($account, $password);
}

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      The error is: 
      "my" variable $self masks earlier declaration in same scope at test.pl
+ line 11, <DATA> line 21937.

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