At 06:30 PM 1/2/02 -0500, Michael R. Wolf wrote: > > 1), Members, please correct me if I've read Oliver wrongly. > > > > Normally if we declare a my $variable on a previous my $variable, the > > previous value is taken over by the latest value like this eg :- > > my $d = 100; > > my $d = 2; > > print $d; # value = 2 > >I think that the compiler should scream here.
It does! % perl -Mstrict -we 'my $d = 1; my $d = 2' "my" variable $d masks earlier declaration in same scope at -e line 1. >You're trying >to create two variables in the same scope with the same >name. Bad! Someone didn't have warnings turned on. Bad! -- Peter Scott Pacific Systems Design Technologies http://www.perldebugged.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
