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RE: History of 'our'by autark (Friar) |
on Jul 22, 2000 at 22:47 UTC ( [id://23915]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
I don't know much about its history, but I know the 'our' keyword
is something that had been planned for a long time.
The deprecated warning was put in in perl5 (don't remember exactly when)
because they knew that they eventually where going to support it.
Thus if you say: you'll be warned by perl that your _use_ of the _reserved_ word 'our' is now deprecated (as in don't do that :-). The 'our' keyword has not had any function prior to perl5.6 (unless you count experimental versions that is). But why did they have to tell us not to use 'our' ? Well, take a look at that code again. In perl prior to 5.6 it prints "bar" (and may give you the warning) - in perl5.6 it doesn't print anything out because you now declare the $foo variable rather than sending it to a function called 'our'. Autark
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