Re: RFC 181 (v1) Formats out of core / New format syntax

[Bart Lateur]

On Mon, 18 Sep 2000 10:57:49 +0200, H.Merijn Brand wrote:

>perl5 formats do NOT support lexicals

Eh? It looks like it, though.

        my $foo;
        format STDOUT =
        @>>>>>>>
        $foo
        .

        $foo = 123;
        write;
        $foo = 45;
        write;

It looks *so much* that way, that I think you must be wrong.

-- 
        Bart.