On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 10:02:18AM -0600, Luke Palmer wrote: : The new alternative is MY.sub. I suppose that could return the current : actual sub, so if you're using a pointy sub you have to say MY.block or : something. But it's one of those two.
Or something resembling them. I'm still pining for sigils on MY values. Plus the method notation is problematic: people will wonder why sub ($x) { MY.sub($x - 1); } doesn't work, not realizing that they'd have to say MY.sub()($x - 1); So we're probably going to end up with another secondary sigil, since it's a weird magical metanamespace. I was going to combine with the $=DATA magical pod stream namespace, but there's a subtle difference between a file-scoped metavariable that is the same everywhere in the file and a lexically scoped metavariable that varies everywhere in the file. So we probably need a different "ssigil". Here are the candidates, leaving out brackets and already-used ssigils. (And Unicode). $`line $~line [EMAIL PROTECTED] $#line $&line $-line $+line $\line $|line $;line $'line $"line $,line $?line $/line I like $-, $+, and $? the best. Probably should save $- and $+ for something complimentary, which leaves $?. It's visually distinctive, and recently came available. :-) So maybe $?sub is the name of the current sub, while &?sub is a reference to the current sub. Maybe $?block is the label on the current block, while &?block is a ref to the closure? Larry