On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 20:11, Brent Dax wrote: > Are you suggesting this? > > if($error) { > use visible '&croak'; > require Carp; > import Carp: 'croak'; > croak($error); > }
No - that would be pointless as well as error-prone. My idea of "visible" is that it would make a lexically scoped thing accessible to an inner dynamic scope at run-time. By default that would only apply to $_, but the mechanism should be generalisable to any name. -Martin