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Date:      Fri, 15 Sep 2000 13:02:20 +0100
From:      Mark Ovens <marko@freebsd.org>
To:        chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   perl(1) variable declarations
Message-ID:  <20000915130220.C257@parish>

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What is the difference (if any) between using ``use vars'' and ``my''
to declare global variables? Reading perlmodlib(1) and the book
Learning Perl they appear interchangeable, but are they?

Is

  use vars qw/ $foo $bar /;

the same as

  my $foo;
  my $bar;

when used for global variables?

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