the scope of $answer extends from its declaration through the rest
of that conditional, including any C<elsif> and C<else> clauses,
-but not beyond it.
-
-B<NOTE:> The behaviour of a C<my> statement modified with a statement
-modifier conditional or loop construct (e.g. C<my $x if ...>) is
-B<undefined>. The value of the C<my> variable may be C<undef>, any
-previously assigned value, or possibly anything else. Don't rely on
-it. Future versions of perl might do something different from the
-version of perl you try it out on. Here be dragons.
+but not beyond it. See L<perlsyn/"Simple statements"> for information
+on the scope of variables in statements with modifiers.
The C<foreach> loop defaults to scoping its index variable dynamically
in the manner of C<local>. However, if the index variable is
done by a package attempting to emulate missing built-in functionality
on a non-Unix system.
-Overriding may be done only by importing the name from a
-module--ordinary predeclaration isn't good enough. However, the
+Overriding may be done only by importing the name from a module at
+compile time--ordinary predeclaration isn't good enough. However, the
C<use subs> pragma lets you, in effect, predeclare subs
via the import syntax, and these names may then override built-in ones:
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