Re: Removing/fixing $[line noise here] variables

[Larry Wall]

Steve Simmons writes:
: On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 04:47:47PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
: 
: > Put together an RFC for it. (Soon!) This is a language topic, but it will 
: > impact internals a touch, and I'd like to get as many of the "impact 
: > internals" things spec'd out as soon as possible . . .
: 
: Uh, OK - but how about we wait 24 hours to see who screams bloody murder?

Some of these concepts are not going to be global concepts in Perl 6.
The per-filehandle variables will be attached to filehandle objects.
The format variables will likely be attached to format objects.  Every
one of these global variables needs to be scrutinized to see if it
should be replaced with a lexically scoped variable.

If there are any left after that, then we could certainly consider
putting them into global hashes.

Larry