At 12:18 PM 8/1/00 -0500, Garrett Goebel wrote:
>Personally, I like to be able to directly access the symbol table. It is
>nice when generating classes from a template. I hope typeglobs go in the
>washing machine instead of the bathtub. But, I don't mind it they are hard
>to recognize when they come back.
Typeglobs != symbol tables.
You can access individual variable bits in the symbol table now without
using typeglobs. I don't see why that would have to change.
I'd also like to see lexicals addressed by name through some sort of symbol
table-ish thing. Maybe:
$PAD{my_var}[-1]
would give a ref to the lexical my_var that exists one level of scope out
from the current, or at least the my_var that's masked by the most recent
declaration of my_var. (So [0] is the current, [-1] the next most recent,
[-2] the one outside that, and so on)
Dan
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