Re: Should MY:: be a real symbol table?

[Ken Fox]

"Bryan C. Warnock" wrote:
> Except that Perl 6 will have the ability to inject lexical variables in its
> scope, and in any dynamic parent's scope.  (It isn't clear whether that is
> write-only access or not - which it probably should be for lexicals.)
> 
> That, invariably, forces at least some run-time lookup by name, since the
> lexicals aren't there at compile time for the early resolution.

Please, please, please say that this is not like Tcl's upvar/uplevel
stuff.

I was imagining the "injection" to happen *only* at compile time
when a "use" statement replaced the scope management object the
compiler talks to.

I *really* don't like the idea of a called sub modifying its' parent's
scope at run time. This fundamentally breaks the feature of understanding
code just by reading it. When I see a lexical, I want to trust the
definition.

- Ken