Re: a declaring

On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 9:25 PM, J. Peng <peng.kyo@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 1:58 AM, Chas. Owens <chas.owens@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
wrote:
>
>  >  Because of a quirk in how the current and past versions of perl
parsed
>  >  and handled the statement.  It is a mis-feature according to Larry.
>
>  Chas, do you mean this is a bad style to declare and assign a variable
>  like below?
>
>
>  my $y=0;
>  my @[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 =(1,2,3) if $y;
>  print Dumper \@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 mean it is an abuse of a bug.  The proper way to achieve that
behavior is to either use the state function in 5.10 or closures in
earlier versions.

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Chas. Owens
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