On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 03:27:29PM -0500, Casey West wrote: > 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.
Perl5 already fakes lexical scoping all over the place. A lot of that fakery can be removed from the language, yes, but in the case of block conditions it seems that DWIMery should win over orthoginality. -- Michael G. Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Perl Quality Assurance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Kwalitee Is Job One And God created Cat to be a companion to Adam. And Cat would not obey Adam. And when Adam gazed into Cat's eyes, he was reminded that he was not the supreme being. And Adam learned humility. -- http://www.catsarefrommars.com/creationist.htm