Hi Gunther,
On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, Gunther Birznieks wrote:
> It is not off topic if you realize that the way Apache::Registry and
> PerlRun wraps scripts will cause the closures to occur with my.
Nice one Gunther. :) TMTOWDI...
> It seems to me that he is confused about when the variable will not stay
> shared or will which is a direct result of using shared programming.
[snip]
> the guide explains it OK?
That's http://perl.apache.org/guide
My feeling is that he's probably a C programmer.
Coming from 25 years of C and similar languages with no garbage
collection (where the stack is your shield and protector) it's a bit
of a shock to find that scope with "my" is really only about the paper
on which the code is written. That means it's quite legitimate to
take a reference to a "my" scoped variable and use that reference even
after the original variable itself has gone out of *lexical* scope.
73,
Ged.
