Re: Getting error - Global signal requires explicit package name

J. Peng wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 12:11 PM, hotkitty <stpra123@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> Here's the script (which I got from a YouTube 
>>  video...it seemed to work for him):
> 
> No. If this is the original script, it can't work even for the author. 
> You 'require strict' and 'use warnings' but for all variables, you 
> didn't declare them with either 'my' or 'our'. Perl can't compile and 
> execute it at all.

That's not correct. require() happens at run time, and since perl checks 
for variable declarations under strict 'vars' at compile time, the 
script both compiles and executes, even if it produces a bunch of 
uninitialized warnings.

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