problem with "our"
 

Hi..

I'm new to perl.

How come this piece of code does not work in SunOs5.8, with perl v.
5.005_03 ?
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#!/usr/bin/perl

our $choice = 67.90;
print STDERR " value is: ", $choice, "\n";
exit(0);
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The error is as follows:

Can't modify subroutine entry in scalar assignment at test6.pl line 3,
near "67.90;"
Execution of test6.pl aborted due to compilation errors.





The above script works well in Linux 2.4.20-8 kernel with perl v. 5.8.0.
Also, if "our" is replaced with "my", then script works in both operating
systems.

Is perl version 5.005_03 too old?

Many thanks.

JaSeong Ju

Re: problem with "our"
 

JaSeong Ju wrote:

> our $choice = 67.90;

> Is perl version 5.005_03 too old?

Yes. "our" was introduced in 5.6.

sherm--