On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 01:01:09PM -0800, Larry Wall wrote:
> Graham Barr writes:
> : But are we not at risk of introducing another form of
> :
> : my $x if 0;
> :
> : with
> :
> : if my $one = <ONE> {
> : ...
> : }
> : elsif my $two = <TWO> {
> : }
> :
> : if ($two) {
> : ...
> : }
>
> Then it's just undefined. It's no different from how &&, ||, or ??::
> work when you put a declaration in something that's conditionalized.
Right. So we need to make sure that the implementation does that. In Perl5
my has a runtime part, so if it is not actually run then the lexical
can hold the value of the previous time it was executed.
Graham.
