I searched the archives with Google (what, no internal search engine??),
and found the thread on perl6 macros, which I did read.
>From what I saw, it mostly concentrated on using macros for speed. That
should be a minor argument, especially considering this is perl. :)
Common Lisp macros are inc
On Thu, 2002-03-21 at 12:52, Allison Randal wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 09:59:35AM -0800, Larry Wall wrote:
> >
> > I should update y'all to my current thinking, which is that $_ is
> > always identical to the current topic, even if the topic is aliased to
> > some other variable. To get at
Aaron Sherman writes:
: On Thu, 2002-03-21 at 12:52, Allison Randal wrote:
: > On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 09:59:35AM -0800, Larry Wall wrote:
: > >
: > > I should update y'all to my current thinking, which is that $_ is
: > > always identical to the current topic, even if the topic is aliased to
: >
> macro foo($a,$b) {
> return( $c // $a+$b );
> }
>
> print foo(1,2), "\n";
> my $c=100;
> print foo(1,2) "\n";
Yeah, your example provided is correct. It's called variable
capture, and there's some work required by common lisp macros to
ensure that unwanted variable capture does not occur.
