Tom Christiansen wrote:
>
> Perhaps you simply know inept C programmers.
Is there any other kind? ;-)
*Kidding*!
> In C, something that
> isn't declared auto or static is going to be global. Seeing no
> scoping declarations, the C programmer who knows C will come to the
> same conclusion as t
>$x and $y are in the same scope. This is good, but also bad. For one
>thing, you can hang yourself real easily if you come from a C background
>and expect this to keep stuff private:
> $x = 10;
> sub square {
> ($x) = @_;
> $x *= $x;
> }
> $ans = square($x);
> print "$x squar
This and other RFCs are available on the web at
http://dev.perl.org/rfc/
=head1 TITLE
New pragma 'scope' to change Perl's default scoping
=head1 VERSION
Maintainer: Nathan Wiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 07 Aug 2000
Last Modified: 28 Aug 2000
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