Abhijit Mahabal writes:
> On Wed, 1 Dec 2004, Damian Conway wrote:
>
> > Abhijit Mahabal wrote:
> >
> > > I am a little confused if the following is valid perl6:
> > >
> > > our &xsub = { $x };
> >
> > No. Illegal attempt to assign to a reference. You want aliasing/binding
> > instead:
> >
> > our &xsub := { $x };
> >
> > (I like to think of := as "assignment to symbol table entry".)
>
> Okay, that makes sense. A question about symbol tables, though: IIRC, only
> packages have symbol tables, and blocks don't: they just have a lexical
> pad. So is the C<our> redundent? Is the following an error?
>
> my &xsub := { $x };
>
> ?
No, not an error. Lexical pads work just like symbol tables in Perl 6.
You can muck around with them, too. Hooray!
In fact, I expect that piece of code to be rather common in Perl 6.
Luke
