Re: New Group proposed: subs (was Re: named parameters)

[Peter Scott]

At 10:43 AM 8/4/00 -0400, Kyle R . Burton wrote:
> > One of my many RFCs will include a proposal for a $SELF variable along
> > those lines.
>
>Why not allow for the choice of the name of self, perhaps through a pragma?
>
>use self => 'self';
>use self => 'this';
>
>or something along those lines -- since it's currently up to the devleoper
>anyway.  Somethign about a capitolized SELF is unappealing to my eyes.

Agreed.  It also looks wrong to use all caps for a lexical rather than a 
package global.

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Peter Scott
Pacific Systems Design Technologies