Re^2: Curious result of using "my ... if ..."

Not so much a bug as an unmapped and(possibly) unmappable area of the Perl landscape. What is the sensible behaviour? Personally I think an error is appropriate.

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Re^3: Curious result of using "my ... if ..." by perrin (Chancellor) on May 16, 2007 at 14:45 UTC
In my opinion, the sensible behavior, and what most people expect when they use it, is that it would operate the same as if the my($x) was on a separate line. If that isn't possible, it should throw an error.	[reply]
Re^4: Curious result of using "my ... if ..." by jrw (Monk) on May 17, 2007 at 22:58 UTC
I agree with you. There are two logical choices: either it should work as you suggest or it should be disallowed by the compiler. But the actual implementation makes no sense whatsoever to me.	[reply]