On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 10:52:58AM -0800, Dave Whipp wrote: : One could imagine implementing this by creating the scopes as instances : of an object, and then binding the object's attributes onto the : variables (i.e. "our $foo := $obj.bar"). The "scope space" object would : then be the set of global vaiables to be bound; and the "scope" object : would be the set of values to bind. : : However, when we want to release the global vaiables from our scope, : then we need a way to unbind the variables, and restore them to the : bindings that existed before they were bound to our scope space. I'm not : sure how to do that, because we don't have any builtin concept of : dynamically scoped scopes.
Hmm. Just sounds to me like a form of tying involving delegation. Piece o' cake. Syntax left for the module author to decide, if a special declarator is needed in preference to standard variable-type syntax. Larry
