Re: Help on variable declaration with "use strict "

damn.. that is right! Since I am a newbie I have little confidence in my understanding of the concepts. So it made me suspect the declaration instead of checking the syntax. Apologies.

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Re^2: Help on variable declaration with "use strict " by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jun 01, 2011 at 16:52 UTC
It was hard to spot. The reason it's a strict error is that `use Data::Dumper my %count;` [download] is the same as `BEGIN { require Data::Dumper; import Data::Dumper my %count; }` [download] The curlies of the implicit `BEGIN` limited the scope of the lexical.	[reply] [d/l] [select]