I was just sitting here thinking over all these issues and making various responses (as well as adjustments to my mental model for RFC 106 v2). With the radical proposal of eliminating dynamic variables that RFC 106 includes (as an option! Don't get excited; read the RFC first!), I've demonstrated to myself, at least, that Perl can be written without dynamic variables at all (especially if you allow the ability to use dynamic assignment (also known as the "local" operator, which it doesn't)). I was pondering doing something formal like a blood-oath or something to declare that I would never use a dynamic variable again when it suddenly dawned on me that it would be Really Cool if I could get perl to enforce this for me (I've never been very good keeping oaths, or diets, or New Years' Resolutions, etc.; I guess I'm just Lazy. :) And thus was born the idea for a new option for the strict pragma: use strict 'no-dynamic-vars'; Or whatever. Look for it in the upcoming RFC 106 v2. (Seems like any idea that the RFC author called "optional" could be supported with a pragma, come to think of it. :) J. David
