Re: RFC: lexical variables made default

[Peter Scott]

At 11:57 AM 8/2/00 -0400, John Porter wrote:
>Tom Christiansen wrote:
> > >I feel strongly that "my" and "our" should both be renamed,
> > >as well as "local".
> >
> > What then do you propose?  my() and our() were chosen for their brevity.
>
>Well, "var" is pretty short.  And perhaps globals could be declared
>with something like "var global".  Extra verbosity required for globals
>might be A Good Thing.

Argh, you're giving me Pascal flashbacks.

P5      P6
local   save
my      my
our     our

Keep 'em short.

As for making lexicals the default, I ain't giving up the typo-catching 
effect of use strict 'vars'.  So you'd need something like use strict 
'declarations' which would require all variables to be declared with one of 
the above three before first use (or be package-qualified).

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Peter Scott
Pacific Systems Design Technologies