return array/hash ref from function

From: Andrew Gaffney (agaffney_at_skylineaero.com)
Date: 05/12/04 

Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 14:12:50 -0500
To: beginners <beginners@perl.org>

I have a number of functions in a program I'm writing that return a reference to
an array or hash. In the functions, I declare the variable to return with 'my'
which I'm finding out is bad. Should I declare variables to return from a
function with 'our'? Do I need to make sure I don't have conflicting variable
names from other functions? What pitfalls do I need to know about when doing this? 

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Andrew Gaffney
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Skyline Aeronautics, LLC.
636-357-1548

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