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RE: Should MY:: be a real symbol table?

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From:
Brent Dax
Date:
September 2, 2001 10:33
Subject:
RE: Should MY:: be a real symbol table?
Message ID:
FJELLKOPEAGHOOODKEDPOEMBCEAA.brentdax@cpan.org
# -----Original Message-----
# From: Simon Cozens [mailto:simon@netthink.co.uk]
# Sent: Sunday, September 02, 2001 4:34 AM
# To: Brent Dax
# Cc: perl6-internals@perl.org
# Subject: Re: Should MY:: be a real symbol table?
#
#
# On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 03:13:09AM -0700, Brent Dax wrote:
# > Is there any real reason my() variables are stored in a pad
# instead of a
# > symbol table?
#
# Recursion.

Perhaps I wasn't entirely clear.  I'm suggesting array-of-symbol-tables
instead of array-of-arrays.

--Brent Dax
brentdax@cpan.org

"...and if the answers are inadequate, the pumpqueen will be overthrown
in a bloody coup by programmers flinging dead Java programs over the
walls with a trebuchet."
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