in reply to lexical scope in if/elsif tests

The mys are outside of the squiggly brackets of the if.

That means they look like they're in the outer scope to me ;)

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Re^2: lexical scope in if/elsif tests
by CountZero (Bishop) on Apr 05, 2010 at 13:46 UTC
    Not so: the $key and $val lexical variables are scoped to the whole of the if ... elsif ... else ... block. You get an error if you use them outside of that block.

    CountZero

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      Good to know; I'll have to shift my perspective a little bit to make it look right.

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