At 7:35 PM +0100 7/11/02, Dave Mitchell wrote: >On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 02:29:08PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote: >> At 7:18 PM +0100 7/11/02, Dave Mitchell wrote: >> >On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 10:41:20AM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote: >> >> The place where you'll run into problems in where you have multiple >> >> variables of the same name at the same level, which you can do in >> >> perl 5. >> > >> >can it? >> >> Yes. >> >> >can you give an example? >> >> [localhost:~] dan% perl >> my $foo = 12; >> print $foo; >> my $foo = "ho"; >> print $foo; >> 12ho[localhost:~] dan% > >ah, I see what you mean. I hope that'll be a syntax error rather than just >a warning in perl6.
Me too, since it makes pulling lexicals out by name rather tricky. Doable, but tricky. (And messy, and somewhat expensive) That's Larry's call, though. -- Dan --------------------------------------"it's like this"------------------- Dan Sugalski even samurai [EMAIL PROTECTED] have teddy bears and even teddy bears get drunk