In article <001201c144fb$4a1ba3d0$ec00a8c0@boxx>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Sascha Kersken) wrote:
> Perl 5.6 provides the 'our' statement as opposite to 'my': it makes a
> variable global to a file in which it's used.
it declares a package variable, actually. if you aren't in its
package, then you have to use the full package specification to
get to it. it's not a global variable in the sense that something
like $_ is global (even though it lives in main::).
my() is not really the opposite of our(), either. it limits the
the variable to whatever scope it is in, and a file is a type of
scope. :)
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