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Re^3: Want for a name?

by LanX (Saint)
on Dec 11, 2013 at 20:40 UTC ( [id://1066715]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re^2: Want for a name?
in thread Want for a name?

sure, you need to localize them.

But $a and $b always have the risk to be lexicals from the outer scope², I wanted to avoid discussing that problem.¹

It's about naming after all...

Cheers Rolf

( addicted to the Perl Programming Language)

¹) compare this error

DB<108> my $a=3; sort {$a <=> $b} @a Can't use "my $a" in sort comparison at ...

²) being bound to another package can be solved by investigating the caller, but checking for lexicals involves padwalker.

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