Re: RFC: Rename local() operator

[Buddha Buck]

> > What about C<hide> ?
> 
> Here's yet another one - how about "here"?
> 
>    {
>       here $/ = "\n";   # what it is in here
> 
>    }
> 
> Not really any confusion on this - $/ is "\n" 'in here', but maybe
> something else outside.
> 
> Unlike "hide" or others, this doesn't connote it's necessarily any
> different from somewhere else - just that it's this value inside the
> current block (which is what we're after, I think).

But it isn't "here" that's the problem.  If we just wanted to change 
the value "here", we could use my().  The problem is that local() 
changes the value for somewhere else as well as here.  Other names 
suggested (like "shadow", or "mask") convey that idea better than 
"here".

> 
> ?????
> 
> -Nate

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