On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 03:40:59AM +0800, Audrey Tang wrote: : Brad Bowman wrote: : > and against the spirit of the "my $COMPILING::x" in earlier versions of : > S06. : > Regardless of the "not a block" status of a q:code, I think that it's : > lexicals should only be visible within the q:code by default. If this : > is the intention of the above phrase the it should be made clearer. : : Indeed the design is intentionally unhygienic; I couldn't find an easy : way for default-hygienic to turn into unhygienic (we do need unhygienic : macros sometimes), and there's a very easy way to turn : default-unhygienic to hygienic ones (just add another pair of curlies). : : I'm not particularly happy with this; another thought is for q:code to : be hygienic by default, but introduce a q:code(:no_scope) or : q:code(:leak) or q:code(:unhygienic) or some other flag to remove the : implicit scoping. Would that be a saner default? :-)
Maybe that's what q:code(:COMPILING) actually does? Or has as an additional side effect? Hmm... Larry
