> > Hi, all. > > I was reading the perlsub docs and hit this speedbump: > > > > NOTE: The behaviour of a "my" statement modified with a > > statement modifier conditional or loop construct (e.g. "my > > $x if ...") is undefined. The value of the "my" variable > > may be "undef", any previously assigned value, or possibly > > anything else. Don't rely on it. Future versions of perl > > might do something different from the version of perl you > > try it out on. Here be dragons. > > > > I failed to parse. > > Could someone elaborate that, please? :) > > What version of Perl are you running. The above does not appear in > the perlsub doc page for 5.6.1 on Solaris, however on my 5.8.0 Red > Hat 8.0 it does. Which seems very weird.
I could swear I'd seen something like it, but I think it was just a warning in a faq that my $x if 0; wouldn't bother to make $x, which I understood. I'm running 5.8 on Solaris. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Send Flowers for Valentine's Day http://shopping.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
