Re: Tying & Overloading

[Dan Sugalski]

At 04:46 PM 4/23/2001 -0400, John Porter wrote:
>Larry Wall wrote:
> > Except we're not having highlander variables.  $foo and @foo remain
> > distinct entities.
>
>I know.  Sad.
>
>(Of course, what I meant by highlander was no prefix chars.
>Highlanderishness is just a consequence of that.)

It wouldn't be all that tough to change this if you were so inclined--it'd 
certainly be a simpler parser modification than some others that have been 
proposed. (The requirement to predeclare all variables would come into 
play) You'd lose easy interpolation of variables into strings, though)

                                        Dan

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