Larry Wall: # Hmm. Those don't really stand out enough. Maybe we should go with # OBJECT:: and GLOBAL:: just for a little more visual punch.
How about CORE:: instead of GLOBAL::? This helps stick with tradition and minimize the number of reserved packages. # : And what will: # : # : main.*can('foo') # : # : result in? # # These days it's "Main", not "main". And it's a module, not a # class, so probably it fails, unless someone can think of # something useful for it to mean. I'd hope that Perl would allow me to do something like that to see if Main::foo exists... --Brent Dax <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> @roles=map {"Parrot $_"} qw(embedding regexen Configure) "If you want to propagate an outrageously evil idea, your conclusion must be brazenly clear, but your proof unintelligible." --Ayn Rand, explaining how today's philosophies came to be