Re: Auto My?

2004-12-19 Thread James Mastros
Juerd wrote: Just typing my before the first use of a variable isn't hard, and it makes things much clearer for both the programmer and the machine. Does this imply that it's now possible to type Cmy @foo[23] = 42;, and declare @foo? In the current perl, this doesn't work -- it's a syntax

Re: Auto My?

2004-12-19 Thread Rod Adams
James Mastros wrote: Juerd wrote: Just typing my before the first use of a variable isn't hard, and it makes things much clearer for both the programmer and the machine. Does this imply that it's now possible to type Cmy @foo[23] = 42;, and declare @foo? In the current perl, this doesn't work

Re: Auto My?

2004-12-19 Thread chromatic
On Sun, 2004-12-19 at 20:25 -0600, Rod Adams wrote: One of the other reasons in favor of the idea was aesthetic. # stuff which declares $x, $z, and $q $x = 4; my $y = 7; $z = 12; my $r = 4543; $q = 121; compared to: # stuff which declares $x, $z, and $q $x = 4; $y = 7; $z =