Re: [ID 20000111.008] use strict 'vars'

[Ronald J Kimball <rjk@linguist.dartmouth.edu>]

On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 01:08:20PM -0700, Christian Cadieux wrote:
> 
> This is a bug report for perl from ccadieux@central.sun.com,
> generated with the help of perlbug 1.13 running under perl 5.003.
> 
> [Please enter your report here]
> use strict 'vars' seems to ignore the variables '$a' and '$b'. It works
> fine for '$c', '$d' ...
> 
> #/usr/bin/perl
> use strict 'vars';
> 
> $a = 2;
> 
> # this code should not work but does.
> 

$a and $b are special-cased because they are used by sort subroutines.

Ronald

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References to:

Christian Cadieux <ccadieux@ccadieux.Central.Sun.COM>

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