At 02:09 AM 8/6/00 -0400, Chaim Frenkel wrote: >Then a mechanism for uplevel manipulation of variables should be used. > > uplevel 0, $Perl:Warnings=1; # Hit everyone > uplevel -1, $Perl:Warnings=0; # Hit my wrapper > >(I think something better was proposed, but I don't recall what it was.) Yeah, I can see that. We're going to need a mechanism to hoist things to outer scope levels internally (for when we return objects from subs) so it might be worth generalizing things. > >>>>> "DS" == Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >DS> At 01:21 AM 8/6/00 -0400, Chaim Frenkel wrote: > >> And the global nature (of the name) abolished. > >DS> I'm not entirely sure that tossing the global nature of these things is a >DS> bad idea. It is kinda convenient to be able to mess with things (like >$^W) >DS> and have them stay messed-with. Tossing that makes some sense from a >DS> stricture/no-action-at-a-distance standpoint, but having a quick & dirty >DS> way to just *do* something is kinda perlish. > > >-- >Chaim Frenkel Nonlinear Knowledge, Inc. >[EMAIL PROTECTED] +1-718-236-0183 Dan --------------------------------------"it's like this"------------------- Dan Sugalski even samurai [EMAIL PROTECTED] have teddy bears and even teddy bears get drunk