On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 11:09:24PM -0500, Uri Guttman wrote: > >>>>> "SP" == Stéphane Payrard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > SP> On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 03:56:06AM +0100, Stéphane Payrard wrote: > >> > >> Giving scoping functions the status of list operators > >> would allow to drop parentheses when not used in conjunction > >> with initializer so one could write: > >> > >> my $a, $b, $c; > >> > >> instead of > >> > >> my ($a, $b, $c); > > SP> Too bad that in English there is no plural for my. > SP> In French it would work fine > > SP> mon $a; # French for C<my>, singular > > SP> # C<mes> as a list operator > SP> mes $a, $b, $c; # French for C<my>, plural > > well, our is a form of a plural my but it is not a plural of the things > that are mine/ours but rather the group owning it (which is the > namespace). > > so we can try: all, mine, these, those, them > and the brooklynese variants: dese, dose, dem. :) > southern variant: y'all or yall. > maybe yall is expanded as yall mine! > > yall $a, $b, $c = 1 .. 3 ; > > larry? > > uri > > PS if this gets in, i will stop being so bigoted against southern accents! :) > > --
> You have got to find a plural form for all the kind of scopes supported by Perl. Ant that gets us half-way because of the = assignement operator precedence which is wrong in your example. -- stef
