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

[H . Merijn Brand]

On Mon, 18 Sep 2000 13:49:25 +0200, Bart Lateur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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.

my $foo = 3;
format STDOUT =
@<<
$foo
.

{ my $foo = 5;
  write;
  }
---
3


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