Re: [ID 20000123.003] [BUG our() 5.005_63] Lexical scoping problems.

[Larry Wall <larry@wall.org>]

Pete Jordan writes:
: Consider a pair of functions that access the same data:
: 
: 	sub shove($) {
: 	  our @stack;
: 	  push @stack, shift;
: 	}
: 
: 	sub prolapse() {
: 	  our @stack;
: 	  pop @stack
: 	}

Or even:

    sub shove($) { push our @stack, shift }
    sub prolapse() { pop our @stack }

Of course, that's not so different from

    sub shove($) { push @MyPackage::stack, shift }
    sub prolapse() { pop @MyPackage::stack }

but with C<our> you don't need to remember your own package name.

Larry

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References to:

Pete Jordan <pjordan1@email.mot.com>

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