Perl6 RFC Librarian writes:
The chief instance where Perl5 requires dynamic variables is in the
case of package globals.
I think this is a bad idea (so I'm glad you made it optional).
Thanks for the feedback, Nat.
I figured the idea would meet with resistance. Really, since the
whole
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nathan Wiger) wrote on 14.08.00 in
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Well, lexical variables don't belong to any package in Perl. They're not
in the symbol table, hence why others can't mess with them. That's why a
"my $var" is different from a "$pkg::var". The latter gets in the
I was just sitting here thinking over all these issues and making
various responses (as well as adjustments to my mental model for RFC
106 v2).
With the radical proposal of eliminating dynamic variables that RFC
106 includes (as an option! Don't get excited; read the RFC first!),
I've
This message is intended to remind us all that the deadline for this
working group is _tomorrow_.
Not so fast!
This is not true anymore. I sent an email to K. requesting all the
current sublists be made permanent. She agreed. Here's the list of
*permanent* sublists:
-io = ALL I/O
