On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 02:27:36PM -0800, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: : >>>>> "Simon" == Simon Cozens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : : Simon> What were the good reasons for not allowing localized lexicals in Perl 5? : : Nobody could explain it in 50 words or less. : : "What the hell is 'local my $foo = 35'?"
That particular form is useless, since the scope of the temporization is the same as the scope of the lexical. But there's no reason not to be able to temporize a file-scoped lexical, for instance, so that it behaves as a global to all the subs in the current file, but is invisible outside the file. Well, hey, that's close to 50 words. :-) Larry
