At 11:40 AM 1/25/2002 -0600, Jonathan Scott Duff wrote: >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.
I like the $? idea, and it could probably be optimized away. -Melvin
