On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 01:39:31AM -0000, Peter Scott wrote:
> In article <C0FD5BECE2F0C84EAA97D7300A500D50046DD0AD@SMILEY>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Timothy Johnson) writes:
> >
> >As far as I know, the #1 reason why people declare data structures
> >explicitly is to avoid "uninitialized" messages while using warnings.
>
> For scalars, sure, although the only time I really find that valid is
> in a case like
>
> my $whatzit = '';
> for (@fuzzbar) { $whatzit .= friggle($_) }
And even then it's not required because ++, +=, --, -= and .= all allow
the LHS to be undefined without providing a warning, because that's such
a common and useful thing to want to do.
(Actually, I'm not sure how comman and useful this is with -- and -=)
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