talking about nested subs brought up another related idea, static (not on the stack) lexicals inside subs. the current solution in p5 is to declare them in a surrounding block and that is slightly ugly. and if you want multiple subs to share them they all have to be in that block.
so a simple is static trait on those variables would allow them to be declared inside the sub itself. an = or is default would work only the first time the sub is called or at compile time. and any subs that would want to share those vars could be nested inside the same parent sub. the p5 way should still work if you need the multiple subs to be all visible (in whatever scope). maybe i missed this one in apoc6 too. my brane is hurting too much to do a proper search. :) uri -- Uri Guttman ------ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------- http://www.stemsystems.com ----- Stem and Perl Development, Systems Architecture, Design and Coding ---- Search or Offer Perl Jobs ---------------------------- http://jobs.perl.org Damian Conway Perl Classes - January 2003 -- http://www.stemsystems.com/class
