Dave Cross said: > I just saw a post in uk.comp.os.linux that used this syntax: > > use strict qw($var); > > to declare a variable. I was about to point out that the syntax was > wrong but, on testing, I find that it works (it creates a package > variable).
Does it? Seems just to be an expensive noop. Did you have warnings turned on? As I recall, strict doesn't complain if you pass it something it doesn't recognise. This is so that new strictures can be more easily added. -- Paul Johnson - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pjcj.net
