Re^2: Origin of 'md5sum' and 'sh' logs

In general a "my" variable cannot be declared within a conditional statement.

Of course it can. Why should this be a problem?

You can declare a "my" variable in any lexical scope - the branches of an if-statement are just one example:

use strict;

my $whatever;

if($whatever) {
 my $something = "here";
}
else {
 my $something = "there";
}

print "look I compiled\n";
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Re^3: Origin of 'md5sum' and 'sh' logs by Marshall (Canon) on Feb 26, 2019 at 01:43 UTC
can declare a "my" variable in any lexical scope. Well, ok but you can't use it outside of that scope. The OP's indenting is confusing to me. Your code works until you try to use $something outside of lexical scope. `#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; my $whatever; if($whatever) { my $something = "here"; } else { my $something = "there"; } print "look I compiled $something\n"; __END__ Global symbol "$something" requires explicit package name (did you for +get to declare "my $something"?) at Monks\Badcode.pl line 14. Execution of Monks\Badcode.pl aborted due to compilation errors. Process completed with exit code 255` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: Origin of 'md5sum' and 'sh' logs by morgon (Priest) on Feb 26, 2019 at 02:44 UTC
Of course you can't use it outside of it's scope. There is a reason it's called "my". I did not read the OP - I was just picking up on your statement.	[reply]