Re^3: Global symbol requires explicit package name


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Re^3: Global symbol requires explicit package name

by Jenda (Abbot)

on Jul 18, 2012 at 21:24 UTC ( [id://982538]=note: print w/replies, xml )

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You are missing context! If this was a remark to someone who just came to the site and was genuinely new to the language, it would definitely be way too harsh, but this was not the case. Win had been here since 2003 and well ... at times had been rather annoying. Now that wording of that error message is rather ... erm ... unfortunate, but after several years of programming in Perl ...

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