> > s/x/5/; # this is still going to replace
> > # all the eckses in $_ with fives.
> Why? This is an arbitrary decision if you've declared variables to
be
> barewords.
I think it's a sane decision -- IMHO barewords shouldn't be allowed to
interpolate. Of course, this means that to use the value of a bareword
variable in a regex, you'd have to do something like:
int x = 3 ;
... # Do stuff with x, or not.
my int $y = x ;
s/$y/5/ ;
Which seems like a roundabout way to do it.
I still find this whole idea confusing, though. Just out of curiosity,
though, would:
#include a way for users to bail out gracefully
be a syntax error? And how about:
int length = 256 ;
and, if that's legal, what does:
print "I wonder what this is : " . length ;
do?
Dirk
