On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 03:26:30PM -0500, Ted Ashton wrote:
:
:Thus it was written in the epistle of Michael G Schwern,
:> On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 10:58:34PM -0800, Larry Wall wrote:
:> > : while( my $line = <FILE> ) {
:> > : ...
:> > : }
:> >
:> > That still works fine--it's just that $line lives on after the while.
:>
:> This creeping lexical leakage bothers me. While it might make the
:> language simpler, the proliferation of left-over lexicals seems
:> sloppy.
:
:.. . . if not to say downright ugly. The boolean of an if or a while is more a
:part of the "inner stuff" than the "outer". What's the chance that it could
:be considered so?
So you're suggesting that we fake lexical scoping? That sounds more
icky than sticking to true lexical scoping. A block dictates scope,
not before and not after. I don't see ickyness about making that so.
Casey West
--
Shooting yourself in the foot with Modula-2
After realizing that you can't actually accomplish anything in this
language, you shoot yourself in the head.
