[snip ... why doesn't "my $i if 0;" generate a warning under "use
warnings;"]
Glenn Linderman wrote:
Partly because the behaviour was probably implemented unintentionally
(hence no original warning or error), and has been treated (once
discovered by those nefarious end-user types) as a feature
At 04:50 PM 2/17/2006, Robert May wrote:
my is a compile time directive that creates the lexically scoped $i,
giving is scope from its definition until the end of the enclosing block.
Assignment is a run time operation. In your example the modified
assignment doesn't get executed, so the valu
John Deighan wrote:
At 01:06 PM 2/17/2006, Joe Discenza wrote:
Fascinating! You have one misconception right off: The "my" line is
never executed (not even to make the new variables) if $L is false.
OK, then, consider this program. Notice that there's a global $i which
has the value 5. Now,
