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in reply to using 'my'

You may find some benefit in reading Use strict warnings and diagnostics for a brief ode praising the benefits of being strict. This article is a couple of pages long. If you want more detail there is a longer version as well. There are also links to all the detail you are likely to want. I highly recommend the Mark-Jason Dominus article "Coping with scoping" which has already been suggested to you.

When your two page app becomes 1500 lines of code you will be happy you made the effort!

cheers

tachyon