On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 14:35:52 -0600, Jonathan Scott Duff wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 05:26:48PM +0200, Yuval Kogman wrote:

> How did $x become 10?!?!?  :-)

GHC has this lovely error: "my brain just exploded"

I think Perl 6 should have a similar runtime warning about how it's
usiong my short term memory for storage ;-)

> 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.
<snip>> 
> Is there some reason we're huffmannizing
<snip>

Because 90% of the code that people use local for in perl 5 is for
counting levels and automatically unwrapping them. The other 10% are
for more complex values.

-- 
  Yuval Kogman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
http://nothingmuch.woobling.org  0xEBD27418

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