On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 12:10:35AM +0200, Reini Urban wrote: > 2008/9/24 Patrick R. Michaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > So, in order to get the behavior you're describing from the interactive > > prompt, we'll probably need more than just Perl 6's 'eval'. In > > particular, the interactive prompt mode will need to be able to > > maintain it's own dynamic lexical pad (i.e., a DynLexPad) and have > > some way of extracting any lexical changes from whatever code string > > it evaluates. > > I wouldn't call them DynLexPad or lexicals at all, I would call them > just globals. lexvars could shadow them though, but this a user > problem then.
This approach might expose some rough edges, though -- things like MY::, OUTER::, *::, etc. might not work as expected, or those constructs would have to know when they're dealing with "interactive mode pseudo-lexical-globals" instead of what the rest of the system is using. Still, we might consider something along these lines -- perhaps as a stopgap approach if nothing else. Pm
