[Chicago-talk] Global variable behavior

[Mithun Bhattacharya]

Hi Everyone,

A piece of my code is behaving in a way I didn't expect and I was hoping someone could enlighten me as to why..

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$ cat a.pl 
push @INC, '.';

our $c = 15;

require newbie;
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$ cat newbie.pm 
package newbie;

print "first attempt: " . $c . "\n";
print "second attempt: " . $::c . "\n";

1;
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$ perl a.pl 
first attempt: 
second attempt: 15
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The way I see it the our in a.pl should make it global across all namespaces. The second attempt does seem to say that did take place. What I am not sure is why the $c variable has become local in scope even though I haven't re-declared or redefined it in any way inside newbie.pm.




- Mithun



      
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