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From:
Dan Sugalski
Date:
July 11, 2002 12:19
Subject:
Re: What's MY.line?
Message ID:
a05111b23b9538a5112f1@[63.120.19.221]
At 7:35 PM +0100 7/11/02, Dave Mitchell wrote:
>On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 02:29:08PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
>> At 7:18 PM +0100 7/11/02, Dave Mitchell wrote:
>> >On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 10:41:20AM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
>> >> The place where you'll run into problems in where you have multiple
>> >> variables of the same name at the same level, which you can do in
>> >> perl 5.
>> >
>> >can it?
>>
>> Yes.
>>
>> >can you give an example?
>>
>> [localhost:~] dan% perl
>> my $foo = 12;
>> print $foo;
>> my $foo = "ho";
>> print $foo;
>> 12ho[localhost:~] dan%
>
>ah, I see what you mean. I hope that'll be a syntax error rather than just
>a warning in perl6.
Me too, since it makes pulling lexicals out by name rather tricky.
Doable, but tricky. (And messy, and somewhat expensive) That's
Larry's call, though.
--
Dan
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