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Re: What's left to do? [LONG]

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From:
Tom Christiansen
Date:
March 22, 2000 19:48
Subject:
Re: What's left to do? [LONG]
Message ID:
1839.953783275@chthon
>But we're not doing that any more. I killed the localisation
>of the variables we (potentially) import, for this very reason:

>> -    local ($dir, $name, $prune, *DIR);
>> +    local ($_dir, $prune, *DIR);

Hm... Ok.

I cannot but wonder why there are *any* local()s left there.
Does one intend to make use of dynamic scoping?

--tom
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