Hmmm... David, you seem to have covered all the issues with that rather
lucid screed [attached at bottom]. I have a couple of dragon-nits to pick,
one involving infrastructure and one involving syntax.
First: it seems strange to me to add yet another property ("but
used_to_be_scalar") to t
In Perl5, given code like
for (my $n = 0; $n < 10; ++$n) {.}
the control variable $n will be local to the for loop. In the equivalent
Perl6 code
loop my $n = 0; $n < 10; ++$n {.}
$n will not be local to the loop but will instead persist until the end of
enclosing block.
It woul
Joe Gottman skribis 2005-01-13 19:35 (-0500):
>In Perl5, given code like
> for (my $n = 0; $n < 10; ++$n) {.}
> the control variable $n will be local to the for loop. In the equivalent
> Perl6 code
>loop my $n = 0; $n < 10; ++$n {.}
> $n will not be local to the loop but will instead
Joe Gottman writes:
>It would be nice if there were some easy way to mimic the Perl5 behavior
> in Perl6. In Perl6, the canonical way to make a variable local to a block
> is by making it a parameter. I therefore suggest allowing the following
> syntax:
>
> loop 0 -> $n; $n < 10; ++$n {..
