Re: same variable defined twice

Octavian Rasnita wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've tried the following script and it works fine:
> 
> use strict;
> my $text = 1;
> my $text = 2;
> print $text;
> 
> Shouldn't perl disallow defining the $text variable a second time in the same script if using "use strict"?
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> Octavian
> 
I just ran into this:

my $limit = '';
$limit = ' LIMIT 10';

In development it takes the second one...and it can be commented out so 
the first hit gets taken. Other ways to do it, of course, but this is a 
one-time script. I wouldn't do that in a larger program.

R