Re (tilly) 2: using 'my'

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Re: Re (tilly) 2: using 'my' by sierrathedog04 (Hermit) on Jun 22, 2001 at 02:07 UTC
You are correct. Camel III's glossary says: In Perl, only certain special variables are truly global—most variables (and all subroutines) exist only in the current package.	[reply]
Re: Re (tilly) 2: using 'my' by chip (Curate) on Jun 23, 2001 at 01:14 UTC
FWIW, those truly global variables are really all in the `main` package. The language parser acts as if those global variable names were prefixed with `main::` if no package is specified, no matter what package directive is in scope at the time. -- Chip Salzenberg, Free-Floating Agent of Chaos	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re (tilly) 4: using 'my' by tilly (Archbishop) on Jun 23, 2001 at 02:21 UTC
I know that. An amusing side-effect is that if someone mistakenly tries to throw an our on, say, $_ and they are in any package other than main::, it will not work as they expect. This might be considered a bug.	[reply]