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david nicol
Date:
November 6, 2003 21:04
Subject:
David Dyck and David Nicol are different people (Re: this week...)
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1068181465.1004.258.camel@plaza.davidnicol.com
On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 07:27, Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote:
>   David Nicol has some problems with a snippet of code where he's
s/Nicol/Dyck/
>   eval()'ing a string that contains a scalar variable in an END block (bug
>   #24296). Dave Mitchell explains what's happening and provides some
>   insight about how closures work.
> 
>       http://xrl.us/2ss

there's so many Daves, it might make sense to just
drop the first names completely.

I agree that variable visibility in Perl is confusing, so
I tack anything I want good temporal control over down to a named file.

-- 
david nicol / A thousand towers rise before me and I cannot climb them all.


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