At 03:37 PM 8/2/00 -0400, Chaim Frenkel wrote:
> >>>>> "TC" == Tom Christiansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> >> Please explain what the utility of having unshared variables? I might
> >> as well just fork().
>
>TC> The only sane situation is to have safety by default. Things should not
>TC> be shared unless you say they are.
>
>Err, I understood his comment to claim that there would be no shared no
>variables.
Nope. I was saying that whether a variable is lexical or not doesn't have
anything to do with whether its shared. Package variables can be unshared
while lexicals are shared.
Dan
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