[perl #119315] [EXPERIMENT] the lexical topic, my $_

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Lexical topic was introduced in perl 5.10.0.  Since then, it has come up mostly
on perl5 porters when it has caused confusion like this:

  my $_; # or the now-gone implicit lexicalization by given

  # ... many lines ...

  someroutine(sub { ... $_ ... });

After a number of suggestions to deprecate the feature, it was deprecated
during the perl 5.17 series.  Rafaël Garcia-Suarez objected in
http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/02/msg198987.html and
the feature was instead retroactively branded "experimental."  The gambit (from
that thread) was to "buy time" to fix it.

That time has been bought, but what will the fix be?

We need to understand what would make this feature "salvaged," and then whether
it can be accomplished.  If we can't figure out *any* acceptance criteria, then
the experiment seems doomed.

-- 
rjbs

• [perl #119315] [EXPERIMENT] the lexical topic, my $_ by Ricardo SIGNES
• Re: [perl #119315] [EXPERIMENT] the lexical topic, my $_ by Eric Brine
• Re: [perl #119315] [EXPERIMENT] the lexical topic, my $_ by Aaron Priven
• RE: [perl #119315] [EXPERIMENT] the lexical topic, my $_ by Carl Friedberg
• Re: [perl #119315] [EXPERIMENT] the lexical topic, my $_ by Zefram