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| author | Larry Wall <larry@wall.org> | 1999-09-24 14:59:37 -0700 |
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| committer | Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org> | 1999-09-25 06:44:47 +0000 |
| commit | 77ca0c92d2c0e47301d906d355d9ab3afb6f6bcb (patch) | |
| tree | b60e0c33e2b10b0977fb99fb6da0dcad45134146 /pod/perlfunc.pod | |
| parent | 84e30d1a3b7cc368d7f93dd2b009e9fd64756759 (diff) | |
| download | perl-77ca0c92d2c0e47301d906d355d9ab3afb6f6bcb.tar.gz | |
Re: [PATCH 5.005_61] "our" declarations
Message-Id: <199909250459.VAA27506@kiev.wall.org>
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@4227
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diff --git a/pod/perlfunc.pod b/pod/perlfunc.pod index 237a38ddf8..82c052148b 100644 --- a/pod/perlfunc.pod +++ b/pod/perlfunc.pod @@ -2700,6 +2700,18 @@ Returns the numeric (ASCII or Unicode) value of the first character of EXPR. If EXPR is omitted, uses C<$_>. For the reverse, see L</chr>. See L<utf8> for more about Unicode. +=item our EXPR + +An C<our> declares the listed variables to be valid globals within +the enclosing block, file, or C<eval>. That is, it has the same +scoping rules as a "my" declaration, but does not create a local +variable. If more than one value is listed, the list must be placed +in parentheses. The C<our> declaration has no semantic effect unless +"use strict vars" is in effect, in which case it lets you use the +declared global variable without qualifying it with a package name. +(But only within the lexical scope of the C<our> declaration. In this +it differs from "use vars", which is package scoped.) + =item pack TEMPLATE,LIST Takes a list of values and packs it into a binary structure, |