Re: Plperl and my() lexical variables bug?

On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 07:49:19AM -0600, Michael Fuhr wrote:
> This behavior isn't specific to PL/Perl. A standalone Perl program
> exhibits the same behavior, so you might find a better explanation
> in a Perl-specific forum like the comp.lang.perl.misc newsgroup.

If you run it standalone with warnings enabled, you get this:

Variable "$val" will not stay shared at a.pl line 6.

Which is pretty much what is happening. There's plenty written about
this on the web. This has a good summary as well as solutions:

http://perl.com/pub/a/2002/05/07/mod_perl.html

In particular, if you "use diagnostics" it suggests an anonymous sub
will deal with it.

Hope this helps,

---- a.pl ----
use warnings;
use diagnostics;

sub test
{
my $val;

sub init {
$val = $_[0];
print( "1: $_[0] " . \$val . "\n");
}

init(12);
print("2: $val " . \$val . "\n");

}

test;
test;
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