On Sat, May 11, 2002 at 08:43:13AM -0700, drieux wrote: > > On Friday, May 10, 2002, at 07:07 , Tanton Gibbs wrote: > > >Yes you can say > > > >our $opt_m; > > > >or > > > >use vars qw($opt_m); > > > >at the top of your program (depending on perl version). > > I've been preached the orthodoxy of the later - but > have never understood the distinction... > > Yes, have read coping with scoping. > > anyone have a human langugae explanation.
Well, "our" is lexically scoped, whereas "use vars" is package scoped. Is that enough for now? -- Paul Johnson - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pjcj.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]