Re: Declaring variables outside subroutines

From: Joe Smith (Joe.Smith_at_inwap.com)
Date: 03/26/04 

Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 09:47:18 GMT

Appoooh wrote:

> I'm no guru, and I haven't been programming professionally for long, but I
> can't help finding it disturbing that in the code below, $var is in scope
> within the subroutine foo. This is a bit eccentric compared to C++ or Java

It's standard procedure for creating static variables in C.
        -Joe

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