RE: Properties and stricture

[David Whipp]

Michael G Schwern [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> Of course, there's problems of order of definition.  What happens if
> Bar.pm is loaded before Foo?  Dunno.

simple sematics can be defined. If we see a declaration:

  package Foo is encapulated;

then we throw an error if the namespace, Foo, is not empty.
At the end of the package (either EOF or a new package decl) then
the namespace is sealed.


Dave.
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