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Re: RFC: Highlander Variables

From:
Piers Cawley
Date:
August 4, 2000 02:29
Subject:
Re: RFC: Highlander Variables
Message ID:
m14s51xtro.fsf@rt158.private.realtime.co.uk
Graham Barr <gbarr@pobox.com> writes:

> On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 06:15:48PM +0200, H.Merijn Brand wrote:
> > If I could, I would VETO!
> > 
> > This would break about 90% of my scripts. I use the same name for different
> > type of variables to group them:
> 
> Why ? Remember there will (hopefully) be translation from perl5->perl6
> so this could potentially be handled in the translation by renaming some
> variables a bit.

And how do you propose to do the rename sensibly?

-- 
Piers 




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