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RE: Re: my and local differences

by Fastolfe (Vicar)
on Nov 10, 2000 at 23:20 UTC ( [id://41002]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: my and local differences
in thread my and local differences

Instead of mentioning the punctuation variables, I usually tell people "use local whenever you want to mask a global variable with a localized value". The "punctuation variables" are examples of global variables that you might want to change the values of in a particular scope.

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