On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 11:57:25AM +0100, Bart Lateur wrote: > On Mon, 21 Jan 2002 15:43:07 -0500, Damian Conway wrote: > > >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. > > But it's handy. And that was, until now, what mattered with Perl.
No, handiness still matters with Perl. It's just that the balance has tipped a wee bit towards the consistency/regularity/simplicity/whatever side of the scale. Besides no one has commented on Steve Fink's (I think it was him) idea to store the result of the most recently executed conditional in $?. I kinda like that idea myself. It makes mnemonic sense. But then I'm sure that someone will come out of the woodwork and say "What about if ((my $a = foo()) && ($b < 4)) ?" or something. To which I'd say "Fooey!" I personally don't think that an extra set of curlies are too high a price for getting rid of weird scoping rules. But that's just me. -Scott -- Jonathan Scott Duff [EMAIL PROTECTED]
