RE: Should MY:: be a real symbol table?

[Sam Tregar]

On Sun, 2 Sep 2001, Brent Dax wrote:

> Okay, I forgot to account for the fact that we'd have to increment the
> refcount for every inner scope a my() variable is referred to in.
> That's not terribly hard, is it?

I have no idea what you're talking about here.  You asked if it was
possible to fake lexical variables with local() (spelled temp() in Perl 6,
right?).  It's not.  Diddling the reference count won't make it any more
possible!  They have different semantics that just aren't compatible.

-sam