At 01:10 PM 8/5/00 -0400, Mark-Jason Dominus wrote:
>Summary of manifesto: Global variables must be expunged.
>
>Replacing the old rotten global variables with new rotten global
>variables is not enough of an improvement.
Works for me. Globals should be for things that truly are global. ($^O, for
example) Most of what's global now should be lexically scoped or tied to
the things they actually affect.
Lexical warnings fixing $^W are a good example of the right way to handle
the first type of global things, while per-handle record separators are a
good example of a proper fix for the second type.
Dan
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