Re^2: Pearls (not really) of Perl programming

[Nkuvu]

in reply to Re: Pearls (not really) of Perl programming
in thread Pearls (not really) of Perl programming

This is at the beginning of a script that I must have written shortly after I learned about use strict. I didn't really understand lexical scope, I just wanted the errors to go away. Can we say "missing the point"?

I'm still in the bad habit of doing this. I blame C for the habit.

[Anonymous Monk]

It's funny that you mention C - whenever I had to deal with it, I would always create additional blocks inside a func just to limit variable scope.

int a()
{
  {
    int a, b;
    ...
  }

  /* move on */
  {
    int a, b, c;
  }
}

That did result in some excessive indentation though.