On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 05:26:48PM +0200, Yuval Kogman wrote:
> Hi,
>
> my $x = 5;
> {
> temp $x;
> # is $x 5 or undef?
> }
> # $x is definately 10
How did $x become 10?!?!? :-)
> I think it should be 5 inside, because it makes it easy to write
> things like:
I think that if C<temp> is the new C<local>, then immediately after the
C<temp $x> line, $x should hold whatever flavor of undef is appropriate.
>
> my $x = 5;
> {
> temp $x++;
> # $x is 6
> }
> # $x is 5 again
>
> and otherwise pretty much DWIMs, except from a historical
> perspective.
Is there some reason we're huffmannizing
my $x = 5;
{
temp $x = $MY::x + 1; # or whatever the proper syntax is
# $x is 6
}
$x = 5;
??
Can you elaborate an example that would show this to be a boon?
-Scott
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