On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 04:21:25PM +0200, "TSa (Thomas Sandlaß)" wrote:
: And I hope that it is not possible to accidentially
: mess up the internals of the compiler because code
: in a BEGIN hits compiler data.
Whereas I hope that it *is* possible to intentionally
mess up the internals of the com
Benjamin Smith wrote:
sub foo { my $x; BEGIN { $x = 3 }; say $x }
foo; foo; foo;
Currently in perl5 and pugs this prints "3\n\n\n".
Which to me looks like a mix of runtime and compile time.
Actually Dave Mitchell confirmed that this is the case in
Perl 5. I have difficulty to regard this as a f
On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 09:06:48PM +0100, Benjamin Smith wrote:
> sub foo { my $x; BEGIN { $x = 3 }; say $x }
> foo; foo; foo;
>
> Currently in perl5 and pugs this prints "3\n\n\n".
>
> Should BEGIN blocks be able to modify values in lexical variables that
> don't really exist yet? (People ca
