James Mastros skribis 2004-12-19 23:00 (+0100): > Juerd wrote: > >Just typing "my " before the first use of a variable isn't hard, and it > >makes things much clearer for both the programmer and the machine. > Does this imply that it's now possible to type C<my @foo[23] = 42;>, and > declare @foo? In the current perl, this doesn't work -- it's a syntax > error. It'd certainly make many constructs easier.
I didn't mean to imply that, but I sure think it's a great idea, even though I can't think of useful examples (as everything I can come up with is more elegantly done with vector ops or map anyway). Juerd