Corrections dully accepted. Thank you.
On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 10:00 PM, Gaal Yahas <[email protected]> wrote: > > Lexical pad, not namespace. > > If by "shouldn't work" you mean, "it surprises me that it does work", > that's one thing, but of course it *should* work that way because > that's how the language is defined. It isn't a design oversight. > That's how you implement static variables, for example. > > Of if you mean "the following is bad style: > > use strict; > my(five hundred variables here); > > sub uses_lexicals_as_if_they_were_globas { > # ... > } > sub also_partakes { > # ... > } > > " then sure, most people would agree with you. > > On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 6:47 PM, sawyer x <[email protected]> wrote: > > Bad choice of words. I confused it with calling a subroutine with &, > > such as &print_name(). > > The problem with putting the subroutines at the end is that it makes > > the previous variables in the code apparent to that subroutine. It's > > not lexically correct and provides an unclean environment for the > > subroutine. > > > > my $name = 'sawyer'; > > > > sub print_name { > > # this shouldn't work because the subroutine > > # is a different namespace, but it does > > # because the subroutine sees all the previous > > # variables and the namespace isn't clean > > print "$name\n"; > > } > > > > On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 6:27 PM, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes > > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> On Fri, March 6, 2009 8:18 am, sawyer x wrote: > >> > Beyond that, you're defining the subroutine at the end, which exposes > >> > it to @_. > >> > >> What do you mean by that? > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Perl mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl > > _______________________________________________ > > Perl mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl > > > > > > -- > Gaal Yahas <[email protected]> > http://gaal.livejournal.com/ > _______________________________________________ > Perl mailing list > [email protected] > http://perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl _______________________________________________ Perl mailing list [email protected] http://perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl
