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RE: What's up with %MY?

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From:
Dan Sugalski
Date:
September 4, 2001 16:23
Subject:
RE: What's up with %MY?
Message ID:
5.1.0.14.2.20010904191946.02011d60@pop.sidhe.org
At 10:04 AM 9/5/2001 +1100, Damian Conway wrote:
>Dan wrote:
>Why not C<delete>? It merely requires that the internals equivalent of:

[Snippy]

>I don't understand why you think that's particularly wormy?

Ah, but what people will want is:

   my $x = "foo\n";
   {
     my $x = "bar\n";
     delete $MY::{'$x'};
     print $x;
   }

to print foo. That's where things get tricky. Though I suppose we could put 
some sort of placeholder with auto-backsearch capabilities. Or something.

					Dan

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