Melvin Smith wrote in perl6-language:
>>
>>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.
And $? should probably be automatically temporarized to the current
block (a bit like $^H in Perl 5) :
if foo() {
if bar() {
# $? is bar() here
frob(); # let's call a function that may contain
# if statements
}
# but $? is foo() here
}
(is "temporarized" the correct word, now that local() goes away?)
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Rafael Garcia-Suarez
