Well... I prefer objects and object tables as data fields
shortly: our() creates global class variables while my() creates private variables.
And a Quote from Damian Conway' s OOPerl Book:
quote:
It may help to think of the two types of variables-package and lexical-in the way the Ancient Greeks thought of their gods. Ancient Greece had big general-purpose gods like Uranus, Zeus, Aphrodite, and Atropos, who existed for all time and could appear anywhere without warning. These are analogous to package variables*.
Then there were the small, specialized gods like the spirits of trees, or doorsteps, or hearths. These gods were restricted to a well-defined domain-a tree, a building, the fireplace -and existed only for a specific period-the life of the tree, the occupation of the building, the duration of a fire. These are like lexical variables: localized and transient.
*The big Greek gods even came in "packages": $Titans::Uranus, $Olympians::Zeus, $Olympians::Aphrodite, $Fates::Atropos.
