[ic] Accessing scratch variables in perl code

Doug Alcorn interchange-users@interchange.redhat.com
Fri Mar 22 10:09:01 2002


Tim Nelson <reply2nelson@yahoo.com> writes:

> Not sure of the difference here, but I had some code
> that was working with $Vend::Scratch->{variable} on IC
> 4.6 and when I moved it up to IC 4.8 I have to use
> $::Scratch->{variable}.

I typically don't reference the package that variable is in.  I trust
that the package has appropriately exported it's symbols.  As such all
of my code uses things like $Scratch->{variable} and $Tag->{foobar}.
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