Re^5: Noob could use advice on simplification & optimization

'my' variables are lexical to the enclosing block. Here, since the variables are declared in the MAIN package, outside of any block, they are global, or visible to all all blocks within the package MAIN.

Declaring a variable with 'our' makes the the variable lexical to all enclosed blocks even across package boundaries.

See perldoc -f my and perldoc -f our for more explanation.

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Re^6: Noob could use advice on simplification & optimization by Anonymous Monk on May 08, 2012 at 13:03 UTC
'my' variables are lexical to the enclosing block. Here, since the variables are declared in the MAIN package, outside of any block, they are global, or visible to all all blocks within the package MAIN. Almost. They have file scope, they're global to the file. See Lexical scoping like a fox, `$ cat foo1.pl my $foo = qq{i'm in main too ${\__FILE__}\n}; sub foo1 { print $foo; } $ cat foo2.pl my $foo = qq{i'm in main too ${\__FILE__}\n}; sub foo2 { print $foo; } $ perl -e " require $_ for qw/ foo1.pl foo2.pl /; foo1(); foo2(); " i'm in main too foo1.pl i'm in main too foo2.pl` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^7: Noob could use advice on simplification & optimization by bgreg (Initiate) on May 09, 2012 at 20:20 UTC
Got it. Thanks all!	[reply]