Re: [PATCH lib/lib.pm 5.005_63] Removing use of vars.pm

[Martyn Pearce <martyn@inpharmatica.co.uk>]

Larry Wall writes:
| I see you usually did
| 
|     our($FOO, $BAR, $BAZ);
|     $FOO = "foo";
|     $BAR = "bar";
|     $BAZ = "baz";
| 
| and sometimes you did
| 
|     our $FOO = "foo";
|     our $BAR = "bar";
|     our $BAZ = "baz";
| 
| I think I have a slight preference for the latter because it encourages
| people to initialize.  I presume your usual preference for the former
| can be explained by ease of editing (and possible unediting :-).
| 
| I almost never use C<my> with a list either.  It's possible I'm ashamed
| of the parentheses despite their pragmatic necessity.

I wonder why?  In comparison to the two above, I tend to go for

my ($FOO, $BAR, $BAZ) = ("foo", "bar", "baz");

being both concise and initializing.

Mx.

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