equivalent of static vars?

[christopher j bottaro]

hello,
what are the equivalent of static vars in c code?  for instance...

void myfunc()   {
        static int first_call = 1;

        if (first_call) {
                /* do some intialization of something */
                first_call = 0;
        }
}

i want to be able to do something like that in perl...

thanks,
-- christopher

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