Re: Re: Help needed understanding global variables in Perl


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Re: Re: Help needed understanding global variables in Perl

by shotgunefx (Parson)

on Mar 05, 2002 at 11:05 UTC ( [id://149327]=note: print w/replies, xml )

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A clarification on the following point.
The closest thing to a global variable in perl is a variable that lives in main::'s symbol table. This is because whenever a variable is referred it is always looked for in main::. But this is only a last resort,

This is not true. If you are not in main:: it will not look in main for a variable unless you use our $var and then it's still only I belive in the current lexical scope.

# Prints nothing.
perl -e '$var = 'value';package FOO; print $var'

#prints "value"
perl -e 'our $var = 'value';package FOO; print $var'

#prints "value"
perl -e '$var = 'value';package FOO; print $main::var'
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