The Perl 6 Summary for the Week Ending 20020908
Well, what a week it's been eh people? Larry's been telling the Slashdot
crowd about quantum god and big knobs, there's been a call for Perl 6
programmers on Perlmonks (http://makeashorterlink.com/?L51631EB1), and
the Octarine parrot
Luke Palmer fretted:
> This is terrible. Calling foo which calls bar mysteriously overwrites
> $date? "Why is $date changing?" the programmer asks. He does an
> exhaustive search through his code and finally says "ohh," and has to
> change all references to the inner $date to something
> I'm talking about just in the same namespace, how
> do we keep rules from messing with file-scoped
> (or any-scoped, for that matter) lexicals or globals.
> How do we get rule- or closure-scoped lexicals
> that are put into $0?
How about something like the following rework of
the capture/hypoth
