> Dan Muey wrote: > > > Howdy group, > > > > In developing a module and I am torn. > > > > I want to use the newer our $variable; but to make it work with pre > > 5.6 Perl (or whatever version our appeared in) I have to do the use > > vars qw($variable); method > > > > So I was wanting some input about pros and cons of using > either since > > on the surface they appear to do the same thing except that > use vars > > is backwards compatable. > > > > Any input on our vs. use vars ?? Pro,con, neutral ?? > > If you want your module to work with pre-5.6 perl, you don't > have a choice - you can't use "our". > > What you lose when you go to "use vars" instead of "our" is: > > * minor speed improvements (our being implemented in the perl > core, vars being in a module that does really l33t-type > hacking to the perl global hash tables). > * ability to scope your global variable to lexical scopes > * readability - IMO, our is more readable than use vars qw(), and > you can't use C<no vars> anyway, even though you may think you can. > > You have to decide if it's more important to move up with > perl, or to support older versions of perl. > > For me, it's a no-brainer - I don't write for perl 5.005 > anymore. For you ... the requirements can easily be different.
Thanks for the input, I appreciate all the points of view I can get. If it was soley for me I'd definitely fo our. But I don't want to punish The Perl 5.5 users but I also would like to encourage folks to use the latest and greatest. I'll figure something out! Thanks! Dan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
