Re: RFC: lexical variables made default

[John Porter]

Peter Scott wrote:
> Argh, you're giving me Pascal flashbacks.

Nothing inherently wrong with that.


> Keep 'em short.

I think Keep Them Meaningful/Mnemonic should take precedence over
Keep Them Short.


> So you'd need something like use strict 
> 'declarations' which would require all variables to be declared with one of 
> the above three before first use (or be package-qualified).

I'm not arguing for anything there, other than the more-or-less
agreed-upon Make "Use Strict" The Default.

-- 
John Porter