On Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 10:01:42PM -0700, Larry Wall wrote: : We've also said that MY is a pseudopackage referring to the current : lexical scope so that you can hand off your lexical scope to someone : else to read (but not modify, unless you are currently compiling : yourself). However, random subroutines are not allowed access : to your lexical scope unless you specifically give it to them, : with the exception of $_ (as in 1 above). Otherwise, what's the : point of lexical scoping?
Note that this definition of MY as a *view* of the current lexical scope from a particular spot is exactly what we already supply to an C<eval>, so we're not really asking for anything that isn't already needed implicitly. MY is just the general way to invoke the pessimization you would have to do for an C<eval> anyway. Larry
