Larry wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > : On 4/3/02 6:44 PM, Damian Conway wrote: > : > Larry has said very clearly that in Perl 6 there are no "magical" lexical > : > scopes. > : > : Shouldn't this be: "Larry has said very clearly that in Perl 6 there is only > : one 'magical' lexical scope: sub() or ->" > > It's specifically exempted because it's declaring formal parameters. > You have to be able to declare formal parameters outside the actual > scope or you can't have separate declarations and definitions.
And this is the same in just about every reasonable language. Another way of thinking about it is to say: A C<my> variable is always scoped to the block in which it's declared. (Parameters are then exempt because they have no C<my>). Damian
