Re: RFC: lexical variables made default

[Damian Conway]

   > > Perl's similarity to English is one of the things that makes it Fun.
   > 
   > OTOH, being fun (which I admit it is) is one of the reasons many
   > people don't want to think Perl is a serious language.
   > 
   > Not saying we should eliminate all the fun; but keeping something
   > on the merit of it's being fun is probably at odds with the goal
   > of make Perl more widely acceptable.

Someone want to RFC a "fun" pragma:

   #! /usr/local/bin/perl -w

   no fun;      # for you!

Actually, Tim Maher and I were discussing something not entirely dissimilar
for the purpose of teaching:

        use Training::Wheels;
or:
        no Weird::Stuff;
  
Hmmmmm. I feel a paper coming on...

Damian