On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 11:59:59AM +0000, Pablo Fischer wrote:
> I have a Pretty class, with 15 methods (or more). I was reading a Perl
> Tutorial and read that I could create local variables. So In many of my
> methods Im using variables, but Im not declaring them like 'local $var', just
> like 'my $var'.
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> And obviously, 'local $name', was 'my $name' and it was working so nice..
>
> So is it necesary to declare the variables as local vars?
Not at all. :-)
Have a look at perlsub -- the sections called "Private Variables with my()"
and "Temporary Variables with local()" are the official description of the
difference between these two.
There's also a very good article on scoping here:
http://perl.plover.com/FAQs/Namespaces.html
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Steve
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