Re: The binding of "my" (Re: Closures and default lexical-scope for subs)

[Jarkko Hietaniemi]

>    FOR
>    ---
>      1. It becomes more consistent with other Perl functions

my is not a function.  It is a declaration.  Functions take arguments
and return values.  my does not.  It is language construct like if.
Unless, of course, you claim that if is a function, too.  That
ways lies LISP.  I actually like LISP, but why reinvent it...?

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