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On Friday, July 06, 2012 10:43:40 PM Linda W wrote: > Didn't know it did that... so it warns if you use it again in same package, > but NOT if you use it in another package...even though when you use it > in another package it's potentially 'random' what package it is really > referring to (did you declare it first in main, or in that second > package?....er third?) It's perfectly predictable, just like all other lexical declarations. > Personally, I'd like to see 'our' create a package scoped variable that > exists wherever the package is. That's effectively what vars.pm does. > How about > .18 (req. use packaged_our;) > .20 (on be default; to turn off use "no nopackaged_our";) > .22-24 (deprecate no packaged and see if what the feed back is...if > necessary, leave it, else > ~.26 -- kick it).. My feedback is "please don't break working code when a perfectly good mechanism already exists to do what you want". This would invent a new kind of declaration completely unlike any other declaration in Perl 5 and remove a useful existing declaration. -- cThread Previous | Thread Next