On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, "TSa (Thomas Sandlaß)" wrote:
Matthew Hodgson wrote:
I guess $::('Foo') was a bad example - $Foo="Foo"; $::($Foo) would have
been better at illustrating my point - which was that if $::($Foo)
searches outwards through namespace for a variab
On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, "TSa (Thomas Sandlaß)" wrote:
Matthew Hodgson wrote:
These rules are all fair enough - but they are then ambiguous for $::Foo.
Is that the leaf name variable Foo in your current (innermost) namespace?
It is not ambiguous if the sigil rules that expression. I a
On Wed, 20 Jul 2005, "TSa (Thomas Sandlaß)" wrote:
Matthew Hodgson wrote:
I'm very surprised that package variables end up in OUR::, however -
because surely they're not necessarily lexically scoped - and the whole
point of 'our' was lexical global scoping, right
On Tue, 19 Jul 2005, Larry Wall wrote:
On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 07:25:35PM +0100, Matthew Hodgson wrote:
:
: So the question is: what is the correct syntax for referring to package
: variables in the default namespace?
The * looks like a twigil but it isn't really. It's short for &q
current' namespace? $::foo? $?PACKAGENAME::foo?
$::($?PACKAGENAME)::foo? %PACKAGENAME::?
cheers,
Matthew.
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