Re: RFC: lexical variables made default

[John Porter]

Tom Christiansen wrote:
> 
> >Well, "var" is pretty short.  And perhaps globals could be declared
> >with something like "var global".  Extra verbosity required for globals
> >might be A Good Thing.
> 
> But "var" is redundant: that's what the $ is for.

They're not semantically identical.  "var"  would be a declaration.

And yes, maybe we can dispense with $.  (But that's for another RFC.)

-- 
John Porter