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Re: Scope and Ordering

From:
Zefram via perl5-porters
Date:
December 2, 2019 16:27
Subject:
Re: Scope and Ordering
Message ID:
20191202162710.rdxdxvzugqjznqdh@fysh.org
Dave Mitchell wrote:
>However, there will be an implicit scope around the collection of
>where/as/isa/is traits (see the "Type and Value Constraints and Coercions"
>thread).

I'm dubious about this scope, as I described on that subthread.

>I propose that a few aspects of ordering are well defined; everything
>else is left undefined,

This sounds unPerlish.  Traditionally we define order of evaluation
quite strongly.  You can also bet that any change to order of evaluation
will bite someone.

-zefram



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