Re^2: Fastest way to test membership in a constant set

Why "use vars qw(%IsMember)" instead of my %IsMember or our %IsMember?

-Paul

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Re^3: Fastest way to test membership in a constant set by Corion (Patriarch) on Jul 26, 2007 at 15:55 UTC
Because usually, having a global lexical variable is just bad when you need to go around and change it and `our` basically is a misfeature in my opinion - it doesn't work on 5.005 should the code need to be used on that platform and it doesn't offer any advantage over `use vars()`.	[reply] [d/l] [select]