state declares a lexically scoped variable, just likemy. However, those variables will never be reinitialized, contrary to lexical variables that are reinitialized each time their enclosing block is entered. See"Persistent Private Variables" in perlsub for details.
If more than one variable is listed, the list must be placed in parentheses. With a parenthesised list,undef can be used as a dummy placeholder. However, since initialization of state variables in list context is currently not possible this would serve no purpose.
state variables are enabled only when theuse feature "state" pragma is in effect, unless the keyword is written asCORE::state. See alsofeature. Alternately, include ause v5.10 or later to the current scope.
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