Re: RFC: lexical variables made default (revised)

[Tom Christiansen]

>I've heard "internal consistency" bandied about a lot. I think
>auto-my()ing variables in these sub declarations is a bad idea.

>What if you DON'T want them to be my()'ed? Do we have to add a global()
>keyword?

That's what Python requires.  Keeping in mind that Python isn't
truly block-scoped, but just global-package-function scoped, a
variable without the global keyword belongs to whichever of those
(package global or function local) it appears in.  However, it's
highly dodgy, because if used lvaluably, it is implicitly package
global, but used rvaluably, it is implicitly function local.  This
is crazy.  Someone (Sarathy?) mentioned that it's not always easy
from a language level to tell which is which--so I wonder how
Damian's want [rl]value thingawhatzitz will workie or not.

--tom