On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 03:43:07PM -0500, Damian Conway wrote:
> Casey 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.
>
> Exactly!
>
> What we're cleaning up is the ickiness of having things declared outside
> the braces be lexical to the braces. *That's* hard to explain to beginners.
In this case I'll take long-term simplicity over short-term
easy-to-explain rules. Otherwise we'll be writing this all over the
place til Kingdom come.
do {
if my $foo = bar() {
...
}
}
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I sit on the floor and pick my nose
and think of dirty things
Of deviant dwarfs who suck their toes
and elves who drub their dings.
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