On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 04:35:35AM +0400, Alexey Trofimenko wrote:
: On Fri, 9 Jul 2004 20:14:32 -0400, Joe Gottman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
: wrote:
: > Will given be a statement modifier also? This would be useful for
: >quick
: >topicalization:
: >
: > say "$_ => %hash{$_}" given get_random_key();
: >
: >Joe Gottman
: >
: >
: hm...
: does perl5ish
:
: say "$_ => %hash{$_}" for get_random_key();
:
: become unusable suddenly?
Those are both okay. We can probably even make them implicitly declare
a lexical $_ for the statement, as if the left side were really a
-> $_ { ... }
or some such, only without the braces. Topicalizers have to behave
like people expect.
It's the explicit declarations in a statement modifier that I think
are completely misleading, and should probably be disallowed, or at
least discouraged. The alternative is to complicate what "my" means,
and I don't really want to do that when we just went to a lot of trouble
to simplify it from Perl 5's rules.
Larry
