[Tutor] Slightly OT: public/private class members

Jerry Jorgenson jerry@j3iss.com
Fri Feb 14 09:51:54 2003


> And what does strict (Perlicism?) do?

strict enforces declaration of variables before usage. So 

use strict;

makes you issue a

my $variableName;

statement so the if you accidentally type $myVar or $myvariable later on,
an error will occur, rather than a new variable being created. This is
great for code maintainability, especially when you cut and paste functions
from other code.

Jerry

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