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On Wed, 26 Feb 2003 21:29:47 GMT, Dave Mitchell wrote:
>On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 01:13:12PM -0800, Gurusamy Sarathy wrote:
>> On Wed, 26 Feb 2003 20:39:37 GMT, Dave Mitchell wrote:
>> >> IMO, the original warnings are rather misguided, because they
>> >> ass_u_me a particular intent which may not be (in fact most
>> >> often isn't, given that most people aren't trying to do anything
>> >> fancy with closures) true. It may be better to let these
>> >> variables resolve as normal and let "use strict" do its thing.
>> >
>> >What is the thing that you want 'use strict' to do?
>>
>> Nothing it doesn't do already, i.e. fail with "Global symbol $x
>> requires explicit package name ...".
>
>You've lost me here a bit, I'm afraid. The kind of code that generates the
>closure warnings doesn't generate such 'global sym' messages under use
>strict, eg
I was talking about the case where there is an eval "sub { ... }"
where the body of the sub references lexicals in the outer scope.
I remember cases where such constructs used to trigger these warnings,
but I can't seem to reproduce that anymore. Which means I'm probably
going senile, and it may be safest to ignore me.
Sarathy
gsar@ActiveState.com
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