[Melbourne-pm] Postfix conditionals and creating lexicals

[Ben Hare]

This is a Perl bug IMO. You can see why this sort of thing can happen
due to Perl's shorthand way of writing things eg:

if ( $foo ) {
    my $bar = 1; # local scope variable to the conditional block
}

my $bar = 1 if $foo; # woops, no local scoping now

You wouldn't be able to write the latter in other languages such as
javascript. I actually thought ( without actually testing it ) that
the latter would be an error but it seems not! Again tho, you can see
why - Perl probably can't distinguish between the two cases. I think
basically the answer is it would be bad practice to code in the latter
way.

Ben.

PS: Hi Mat and Brendon!

On 12 July 2012 17:17, Mathew Robertson
<mathew.blair.robertson at gmail.com> wrote:
> -1...
>
> Even though I know it is a static, I would never use it that way... It
> strictly isn't documented as that, and causes my head to implode.
>
>
>
> On 12 July 2012 16:14, Sam Watkins <sam at nipl.net> wrote:
>>
>> Mathew Robertson wrote:
>> > It is a static variable.
>>
>> +1 almost useful, maybe a secret feature!
>> at least it doesn't (seem to) cause a SEGV
>>
>> Sam
>>
>
>
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