From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2001 17:27:13 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Mention that lexicalizing $a or $b is a bad idea if one
X-Git-Tag: accepted/trunk/20130322.191538~31684
X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=53e56e0a46451584819aaf58b0d3aee8f2ed60e3;p=platform%2Fupstream%2Fperl.git

Mention that lexicalizing $a or $b is a bad idea if one
wants to use sort().

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@10409
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diff --git a/pod/perlvar.pod b/pod/perlvar.pod
index da06055..b72f357 100644
--- a/pod/perlvar.pod
+++ b/pod/perlvar.pod
@@ -118,7 +118,9 @@ test.  Outside a C<while> test, this will not happen.
 Special package variables when using sort(), see L<perlfunc/sort>.
 Because of this specialness $a and $b don't need to be declared
 (using local(), use vars, or our()) even when using the strict
-vars pragma.
+vars pragma.  Don't lexicalize them with C<my $a> or C<my $b>
+if you want to be able to use them in the sort() comparison block
+or function.
 
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