At 02:09 AM 8/6/00 -0400, Chaim Frenkel wrote:
>Then a mechanism for uplevel manipulation of variables should be used.
>
> uplevel 0, $Perl:Warnings=1; # Hit everyone
> uplevel -1, $Perl:Warnings=0; # Hit my wrapper
>
>(I think something better was proposed, but I don't recall what it was.)
Yeah, I can see that. We're going to need a mechanism to hoist things to
outer scope levels internally (for when we return objects from subs) so it
might be worth generalizing things.
> >>>>> "DS" == Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>DS> At 01:21 AM 8/6/00 -0400, Chaim Frenkel wrote:
> >> And the global nature (of the name) abolished.
>
>DS> I'm not entirely sure that tossing the global nature of these things is a
>DS> bad idea. It is kinda convenient to be able to mess with things (like
>$^W)
>DS> and have them stay messed-with. Tossing that makes some sense from a
>DS> stricture/no-action-at-a-distance standpoint, but having a quick & dirty
>DS> way to just *do* something is kinda perlish.
>
>
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