for others who are just starting out...

[denise]

...like me, and have spent time tearing your hair out over "Global symbol $foo requires strict checking"-type errors and have occasionally been reduced to finding sections of code that do something like what you want to and copying them, I come bearing tutorials:

Coping with Scoping

It made so much suddenly make sense.

Comments

[randomling]

OMG are you psychic?

(I am teaching myself Perl in the hopes of someday being able to fix the easy bug I claimed. I'm doing this by writing a text-based game. This EXACT problem has been confounding me ALL DAY and I think I love you.)

[denise]

I've had the differences explained to me a few times, but none of them 'took'! This explanation made total sense, though. Hopefully it will stick this time :)

[randomling]

I think it might stick with me, too! (And if not, it's bookmarked, so I can go back and remind myself if I get into a similar WTF situation later.)

[denise]

*nod* In general, I've found that mjd (the author of that explanation) generally explains things in ways that make sense to me. I'm browsing through his other stuff to see if he has tutorials on anything else that confuses me *G*

[randomling]

Ooh, cool.

I wonder if he has more info on OO stuff.... [browses too].