Re^2: Making a variable in a sub retain its value between calls


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Re^2: Making a variable in a sub retain its value between calls

by crashtest (Curate)

on Apr 19, 2005 at 16:39 UTC ( [id://449324]=note: print w/replies, xml )

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Thanks for the catch! I'm not initializing the variable in my actual code, and only set $memory = 0 in my post on a whim. But it illustrated a subtlety I would have probably missed on my own. And your comment seems to have sparked a lively and interesting debate on BEGIN vs. INIT blocks.