Re: pascal-like "with" was Re: Default filehandles(was Re: commandline option: $|++)

[Dave Storrs]

On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, John Porter wrote:

> Huh?  They need to be "globals", because the "with" mechanism
> is going to have to be able to write them into a symbol table.
> You can't do this with lexicals.  (Well, maybe that'll be different
> in perl6?)

        Well, if you're using the HOF notation, I believe it works.
Alternatively, the interpreter can simply DWIM and add in the appropriate
derefed-hash-refs in the appropriate places.

        But globals is fine, as long as you save (localize) the old values
first.

                                Dave