On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 15:01, Brent Dax wrote: > We need that capability if we're going to have lexically-scoped exports:
Whilst it would be useful for pragmatic modules to access anything and everything in the current compilation scope, I submit that access to dynamic scope should (in general) be more closely controlled... and of course the former can be used to implement the latter: use visible '$topic'; no visible '$_'; -Martin