Re: (tye)Re: "use vars" will remain (Re: Win32 EXPORT_OK problems)

[chipmunk]

Actually, I think our has one other advantage over use vars, aside from the very minor speed improvement. With our, as with my, declaration and initialization can be done in one step:

my $num = 7;
our $str = 'Hello';

whereas with use vars, declaration and initialization must always be separate steps:

use vars qw/ $str /;
$str = 'Hello';

[tye]

declaration and initialization can be done in one step

Ah, yes, but should they? Even I were to use our, I'd still be writing code like:

our $var;
BEGIN { $var= "Hello"; }

to avoid the race condition between the compile-time declaration of the variable and the (possibly very delayed or non-existant) run-time initialization of the variable. This is only rarely a problem, but it still happens often enough that this habit has saved me enough time that I continue it.
        - tye (but my friends call me "Tye")