Explain lexical variable scratchpads

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Re: Explain lexical variable scratchpads by ikegami (Patriarch) on Dec 06, 2008 at 05:59 UTC
"scrathpads" or just "pads" are where lexical (`my`) variables are stored internally. Each function has one for each level of recursion it's been called. It's a kind of array, where each element is one of the function's "my" variables.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Explain lexical variable scratchpads by Lawliet (Curate) on Dec 06, 2008 at 04:46 UTC
Take a look at How do I work with Scratchpads? -- I found it by Super Searching for `scratchpad`. You should check out the FAQ, too. I'm so adjective, I verb nouns! chomp; # nom nom nom	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Explain lexical variable scratchpads by velusamy (Monk) on Dec 06, 2008 at 05:16 UTC
Dear Monk, Sorry, My intention of scratchpad is not that. I read the following context from a link. "Lexical variables (those tagged with my) aren't listed in the symbol table at all. Every block and subroutine gets a list of one or more arrays of variables called scratchpads (typically one, but more if the subroutine recurses). Each lexical variable is assigned one slot from a scratchpad; in fact, different types of variables with the same name - $spud and %spud, say - occupy different slots". In above context I didn't understand about scratchpads. Can anyone please explain about scrathpads on this context?	[reply]
Re^3: Explain lexical variable scratchpads by Anonymous Monk on Dec 06, 2008 at 05:54 UTC
See perlguts and perlguts illustrated	[reply]
Re^3: Explain lexical variable scratchpads by Lawliet (Curate) on Dec 06, 2008 at 17:49 UTC
Haha oh. Whoops. Could you please edit the title of your original post (OP) to clarify the issue? I'm so adjective, I verb nouns! chomp; # nom nom nom	[reply]