Variable declaration / scope

["Martin A. Langhoff" <ml...@scim.com.ar>]

hi list,

    I've been developing with Embperl for a few months now, and I've
already RTFM a few times, but still some issues remain obscure to me. So
here it is: Why can't I declare a lexical variable inside a [- -] block?
[- my $foo -] will make Embperl cry loud if $foo was not declared as a
global.

    And if I change $foo with %foo in the previous example, it seems
that declaring [- my $foo -]  when it already is a global wipes %foo's
contents clean when the [- -] block is over.

    I can, of course, declare [! my $foo !] and get it to work, but
that's another issue...



martin
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RE: Variable declaration / scope

[Gerald Richter <ri...@ecos.de>]

hi,
>
>     I've been developing with Embperl for a few months now, and I've
> already RTFM a few times, but still some issues remain obscure to me. So
> here it is: Why can't I declare a lexical variable inside a [- -] block?
> [- my $foo -] will make Embperl cry loud if $foo was not declared as a
> global.
>
>     And if I change $foo with %foo in the previous example, it seems
> that declaring [- my $foo -]  when it already is a global wipes %foo's
> contents clean when the [- -] block is over.
>
>     I can, of course, declare [! my $foo !] and get it to work, but
> that's another issue...
>

Normaly there shouldn't be a problem with declaring lexical inside a Embperl
block. You only have to take care about closures:
http://perl.apache.org/guide/perl.html#my_Scoped_Variable_in_Nested_S

If this is not your problem, can you send a short example that shows your
problem

Gerald




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