Re: my and local

[Steve Fink]

Tom Christiansen wrote:
> 
> As we sneak under the wire here, I'm hoping someone
> has posted an RFC that alters the meaning of my/local.
> It's very hard to explain as is.  my is fine, but local
> should be changed to something like "temporary" (yes, that
> is supposed to be annoying to type) or "dynamic".

my's runtime/compile-time schizophrenia is rather bizarre too. I'd like

my $x if 0;

to be equivalent to

my $x;