SPUG:Reference question
John Subaykan
cansubaykan at hotmail.com
Sun Mar 9 20:17:01 CST 2003
>If you remove the "my" from the $age and $sex assignments, it works:
>...
>I'd be curious to know why this works?
Because it is the 'my' that makes it a lexical variable (accessible from
only within the block). Without the 'my', it is a package variable
(accessible by name from within the package, or fully qualified name like
$Package::variable)
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