Re: [lug-nuts] double colon in perl scripts

From: Mike Machado (mike@innercite.com)
Date: Thu Dec 02 1999 - 20:56:46 PST


Quoting Brian Lavender <brian@brie.com>:

> I just installed webcal on my development server and I would like
> to confirm the meaning of the double colon in the webcal.cgi
> script line 24. You can see it at
>
> http://debian/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/webcal/webcal.cgi?annotate=1.1
>
> Of course feel free to try it out at
>
> http://www.brie.com:8080/cgi-bin/webcal.cgi
>
> It looks to me that since we are using strict, and "my" variables go
> out of scope when you go into a different file. We want to
> make the variable $::calendar visible to other files (or perhaps
> I should say the modules) so we put it as $::calendar. This would
> be the same as saying $main::calendar.
>
> If I look at webcal_conf.pm on line 76 I see $::calendar which I assume is
> the
> same variable as in webcal.cgi .
>
> http://debian/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/webcal/webcal_conf.pm?annotate=1.1
>
> Am I correct with this assumption?
>
> The cvs for webcal is at http://www.brie.com:8080/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi
>
> brian
>
>
> --
> Brian Lavender
> http://www.brie.com/brian/
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That sounds right to me :)

Mike Machado
mike@innercite.com
InnerCite
Network Specialist
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