Jeff Clites <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Oct 4, 2004, at 9:58 PM, Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon wrote: > > You can have "the current namespace" actually be [ ::Foo::Bar::Baz, > > ::Foo::Bar, ::* ] (or, for the last one, whatever the namespace that > > @*ARGS and friends are in is called), so that the search for $quux can > > be done very easily. > > This may have changed for Perl6,
It has, thus the reason I suggested this. > but at least for Perl5, non-lexicals > are only ever looked for in the current package, the top-level (main) > namespace, plus the pre-defined variables (don't know if these are > handled at compile-time), according to the Camel. So having an > arbitrary search list might not be used in the Perl case. -- Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Perl and Parrot hacker There is no cabal. [I currently have a couple Gmail invites--contact me if you're interested.]