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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