To my mind, things would be a lot clearer if my and local were to change
places - but I can see why that would not be a good thing.
If it's not too late for suggestions for renaming local, what about
'override'.
Dave.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Fowler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Tom Christiansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2000 10:36 AM
Subject: Re: my and local
> On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 10:18:34AM +0100, Tom Christiansen wrote:
> > As we sneak under the wire here, I'm hoping someone
> > has posted an RFC that alters the meaning of my/local.
> > It's very hard to explain as is. my is fine, but local
> > should be changed to something like "temporary" (yes, that
> > is supposed to be annoying to type) or "dynamic".
>
> Someone has:
> RFC19 "Rename the C<local> operator"
http://tmtowtdi.perl.org/rfc/19.pod
>
>
> Michael
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