I can't think of how much of my life I've wasted because I didn't know about "splain".
Agustin Rivera Webmaster, Pollstar.com http://www.pollstar.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Fowler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Chris Zampese" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2001 10:49 AM Subject: Re: Global Symbols > On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 04:38:27AM +1300, Chris Zampese wrote: > > Global symbol "$whatever" requires explicit package name > > Error messages are documented in perldoc perldiag. You can also pipe your > error to the splain program (provided you have it) so that you don't have to > search through perldoc perldoc. For example: > > > echo 'Global symbol "$whatever" requires explicit package name' | splain > Global symbol "$whatever" requires explicit package name (#1) > (F) You've said "use strict vars", which indicates that all > variables must either be lexically scoped (using "my"), declared > beforehand using "our", or explicitly qualified to say which package > the global variable is in (using "::"). > > Now you need to read perldoc strict to understand what 'use strict "vars"' > does. > > > Michael > -- > Administrator www.shoebox.net > Programmer, System Administrator www.gallanttech.com > -- > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
