[oak perl] Lexical vs. Package variables

[Sandy Santra]

Thanks for the input on this stuff, Zed.

At 05:21 PM 2/7/05 -0800, you wrote:
> > But now I'm grappling with the *basic* idea of scoping:
> > that you're cordoning off a part of your script with a scoped
> > value so that a variable with an identical name elsewhere
> > in the code is unaffected.
>
>It doesn't have much point for a very short script. It is immensely
>pointful for anything longer, though.

Right.  Exactly!  That's what I've been thinking.  But now I'm "graduating" 
to larger scripts, so I need to start using "my".

>You're thinking of event-driven programming here, for instance through
>signals. But it's as deterministic as any other programming, just more
>complicated. Lexically scoped variables are no more or less relevant
>in this case than for any other complicated program.

More complicated, yes.  But I need to be able to enlarge my thinking so I 
can grasp more complicated programming models.  I can't believe I'm still 
having a hard time "getting" object-oriented programming.  So many people 
are programming Java!

It's all about learning better.

--Sandy Santra