Re: local our $var; What does it do? (quiets strict)

[Anonymous Monk]

It quiets strict so you can use short names instead of fully qualified names

$ perl -Mstrict -we " local $fudge = 12; "
Global symbol "$fudge" requires explicit package name at -e line 1.
Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors.

$ perl -Mstrict -we " local our $fudge = 12; "

See local our?

I've also seen it here https://perl.apache.org/docs/1.0/guide/porting.html

Turning regular "cgi" into registry is most often where I've seen "local our" because folks don't want to grok my lexicals

[kcott]

Thanks for the explanation and links.

Clearly nothing new at all: I'm somewhat surprised I haven't encountered it before.