On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 09:26:42AM -0600, Tom Christiansen wrote:
> I believe that under the current proposal, any unqualified and
> hitherto undeclared variables would be implicitly declared to be
> lexicals in the current scope. This is to be contrasted with the
> status quo, under which such v
I believe that under the current proposal, any unqualified and
hitherto undeclared variables would be implicitly declared to be
lexicals in the current scope. This is to be contrasted with the
status quo, under which such variables are implicitly dynamics in
the current package.
I am not wholly
Thus it was written in the epistle of Jeremy Howard,
> J. David Blackstone said:
> > Prior to version 5, all implementations of Perl were designed with
> > only dynamic variables in mind. Perl5 provided lexical variables in a
> > backward compatible way. Perl6 should make lexical variables the d
J. David Blackstone said:
> Prior to version 5, all implementations of Perl were designed with
> only dynamic variables in mind. Perl5 provided lexical variables in a
> backward compatible way. Perl6 should make lexical variables the default.
> ...
That's certainly a nice idea. However, a lot of
