From: Gavin Sinclair Date: 2003-01-30T10:56:56+09:00 Subject: Re: Local variables & blocks On Thursday, January 30, 2003, 12:26:45 PM, Dmitri wrote: >> perl is incredibly flexible - you can bend the barrel right around >> and shoot yourself in the face even though you thought you were >> pointing it somewhere else. > hehe... yeah, ok... point taken.... but the road suggested sounded > like it was leading to mandatory variable declaration.... or did I > misinterpret it? You misinterpreted. This discussion is about exporting specified variables to parent scopes, not about mandatory declaration. Gavin