Re: [MacPerl] problem with "my"

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 1.44 -0700 2000.04.04, Nicholas G. Thornton wrote:
>I'm working on a module for my own personal use regarding Kevin Reid's
>Mac::TextViewPane, basically to make it easier to use in the way I've been
>doing
>for many programs. Below is a code snippit and an error I'm getting.
>
>sub new_window {
>     my $window = shift;
># [...]
>     my $$window_pane = new Mac::TextViewPane ( Font => Monaco, Size => 9,
>Text
>=> $_[1] );
># [...]
>}
>###
># Can't declare scalar deref in my, near "$window_pane ="
>File 'Wild Colonials:My Documents:perl scripts:[ by me
>]:DeOS:modules:windows.dem'; Line 67

Yes ... ?  You cannot do that.  You cannot use my() on a reference or a
dereference, you can only use it on a specific variable.  $$foo is not a
variable, it is a dereference of the variable $foo.

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