Re: pascal-like "with" was Re: Default filehandles(was Re: command line option: $|++)

[John Porter]

Dave Storrs wrote:
> On 17 Aug 2000, Johan Vromans wrote:
> > Dave Storrs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > 
> > >   2) "express" should guarantee that, before it creates a variable
> > > names $FOO, it first calls "local" on any existing $FOO
> > 
> > Why, if the variable is lexical (see 3)?
> 
> D'oh.  s{2) .+^}{} 
> 
> Mismatch between brain and fingers there somewhere, thanks for
> pointing it out.  

Huh?  They need to be "globals", because the "with" mechanism
is going to have to be able to write them into a symbol table.
You can't do this with lexicals.  (Well, maybe that'll be different
in perl6?)

-- 
John Porter