Re: RFC: lexical variables made default

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On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 11:57:21AM -0400, John Porter wrote:
>Tom Christiansen wrote:
>> >I feel strongly that "my" and "our" should both be renamed,
>> >as well as "local".
>> 
>> What then do you propose?  my() and our() were chosen for their brevity.
>
>Well, "var" is pretty short.  And perhaps globals could be declared
>with something like "var global".  Extra verbosity required for globals
>might be A Good Thing.

What I like about "my" is that when you read a statement like "my $age =
25" it sounds like a sentence.

Perl's similarity to English is one of the things that makes it Fun.

K.

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