I've been so "inspired" by recent language features for Perl 6, I've decided to get an early start on Perl 7, with a new RFC ....
=head1 TITLE Private style variables in a non-OO environment. =head1 VERSION Maintainer: Greg McCarroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 05 Oct 2001 Version: 1 Mailing List: london.pm Number: 31337 =head1 ABSTRACT Having seen all these new operators being proposed for Perl 6, I feel quite "inspired", so I was thinking what features I could suggest for the next version of Perl. So I started to think about private variables outside the OO concept, i.e. being able to hide variables in the current scope. =head1 DESCRIPTION First off, i'd like to hide variables in the current scope, or if you will "cover" them. I'd also like to be able to remove this coverage, by "cutting" away the cover. And lastly I'd like to prevent the removal by "blunting" the cutting of coverage. =head1 IMPLEMENTATION Now obviously I need some symbols for these new features, and so I've choosen some at random. Firstly coverage will be carried out by the "_" operator, next removal of coverage, "cutting" will be carried out by the cut operator "8<" and lastly the "blunting" of the cut operator will be carried out by "o". You can also remove the blunting by recovering the variable by reapplying "_", effectively over the "o" operator. =head1 STATUS Crack induced - If this is too common a classification for Perl RFC's please let me know, and I can find another status that better distinguishes it from the majority of RFC's. ;-) -- Greg McCarroll http://217.34.97.146/~gem/
