I replied to Dominus instead of mothra - which was my original intent - mothra was talking about lexical variables in subroutines. I wanted to point out that it applies to conditional blocks as well.
$ perldoc perldoc
Update: Nope - unless I am 'very' short-sighted - I think I did reply to mothra.
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