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Diffstat (limited to 'gnu/usr.bin/perl/lib/vars.pm')
| -rw-r--r-- | gnu/usr.bin/perl/lib/vars.pm | 13 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/usr.bin/perl/lib/vars.pm b/gnu/usr.bin/perl/lib/vars.pm index 6ca6bb4d2c0..5f6c0598cad 100644 --- a/gnu/usr.bin/perl/lib/vars.pm +++ b/gnu/usr.bin/perl/lib/vars.pm @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ package vars; use 5.006; -our $VERSION = '1.03'; +our $VERSION = '1.04'; use warnings::register; use strict qw(vars subs); @@ -61,13 +61,14 @@ functionality provided by this pragma has been superseded by C<our> declarations, available in Perl v5.6.0 or later, and use of this pragma is discouraged. See L<perlfunc/our>. -This will predeclare all the variables whose names are -in the list, allowing you to use them under "use strict", and -disabling any typo warnings. +This pragma will predeclare all the variables whose names are +in the list, allowing you to use them under C<use strict>, and +disabling any typo warnings for them. Unlike pragmas that affect the C<$^H> hints variable, the C<use vars> and -C<use subs> declarations are not BLOCK-scoped. They are thus effective -for the entire file in which they appear. You may not rescind such +C<use subs> declarations are not lexically scoped to the block they appear +in: they affect +the entire package in which they appear. It is not possible to rescind these declarations with C<no vars> or C<no subs>. Packages such as the B<AutoLoader> and B<SelfLoader> that delay |