Re: What to use instead of global variables

[educated_foo]

in reply to What to use instead of global variables

I'm trying to write code to comply with Perl best practices...

Please don't do this. As the quote at the top of the page says, "P is for Practical." Write your programs to solve your problems, not to please language scolds on the internet.

[Anonymous Monk]

While you have a point (do not follow style for style's sake), these "language scolds" are quite correct when the goal is to write maintainable code. (And it should be, for any non-small program!) If you think you will never have to revisit your code to fix or improve it (say, a one-time script), you are indeed free to ignore best practises and just write something that works.

Thus spake the master programmer:
"Though a program be but three lines long, someday it will have to be maintained."