On 2002-11-19 at 16:44:49, Me wrote:
> Elements of this shared vocabulary might be
> called 'locals' or 'yours'.
I like the 'yours' idea from the point of view of the callee:
my $inherited = your $_;
However, I also like the idea of having to mark shareable lexicals
explicitly in the caller, and the "your" keyword doesn't work as well
from the caller's point of view:
your $_;
somesub(); # this sub can see $_
It almost calls for "our"; too bad that's taken. Although the current
"our" has the "exclusive we" meaning (me and others but not you), and this
would be more of an "inclusive we" (me and you and maybe others); too bad
English only has the one set of pronouns for both.
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