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Date:      Fri, 15 Sep 2000 16:34:41 +0100
From:      Ben Smithurst <ben@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Mark Ovens <marko@freebsd.org>
Cc:        chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: perl(1) variable declarations
Message-ID:  <20000915163441.A56185@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20000915130220.C257@parish>
References:  <20000915130220.C257@parish>

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Mark Ovens wrote:

> Is
> 
>   use vars qw/ $foo $bar /;
> 
> the same as
> 
>   my $foo;
>   my $bar;
> 
> when used for global variables?

I think "my" variables won't work if you want to set them from another
file, but I don't remember exactly. e.g.

==== main ====
my ($foo, $bar);
require "globals.pl";
print "foo=$foo bar=$bar\n";
==============

==== globals.pl ====
$foo = 1;
$bar = "sheep";
====================

I don't think this will work, but I think it will if you use "use vars"
instead.  That's the only difference I recall coming across, so I always
use "my" except in cases like the above.

-- 
Ben Smithurst / ben@FreeBSD.org / PGP: 0x99392F7D


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