Night of the Living Lexical (sequel to Apoc4: The loop keyword)

[Melvin Smith]

At 12:32 PM 1/21/2002 -0500, Michael G Schwern wrote:
>On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 10:58:34PM -0800, Larry Wall wrote:
> > :     while( my $line = <FILE> ) {
> > :         ...
> > :     }
> >
> > That still works fine--it's just that $line lives on after the while.
>
>This creeping lexical leakage bothers me.  While it might make the

"lives on", ... "creeping lexical", I feel the same way, we must find some
way to kill these... :)

-Melvin