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Re: Lexical scoping like a fox

by Elian (Parson)
on Nov 18, 2002 at 20:16 UTC ( [id://213873]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Lexical scoping like a fox

The big nit here is about destruction. Lexicals are not always destroyed when their declaring scope exits. If they were then closures wouldn't work, and neither would returning references to lexicals. While I know what you mean, it's important to describe what happens correctly. (Cheat and say that when a scope exits perl cleans up any variables that aren't otherwise in use)

Touching on the subject of recursion is important as well. It's easy enough to read this as if there were only one set of variables for a block, and each time you enter the block you get the same set over again, which isn't the case.

You don't necesarily have to go into detail on either of these, but it's important to make sure you don't give folks a mistaken impression that'll get in their way when they hit the more complex stuff later.

Other than that, this is pretty good.

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Re: Re: Lexical scoping like a fox
by broquaint (Abbot) on Nov 19, 2002 at 11:23 UTC
    Cheat and say that when a scope exits perl cleans up any variables that aren't otherwise in use
    Well I do say something along these lines right at the beginning of the tutorial, but then later on say all variables are destroyed on exit, which of course isn't true. I'll try and clear this area up.

    It's easy enough to read this as if there were only one set of variables for a block, and each time you enter the block you get the same set over again, which isn't the case.
    Ok, will try and put this in towards the end of the tutorial (will probably go at the end of In private). Should be fun ;)

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    broquaint

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