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Ovid via perl5-porters
Date:
November 10, 2021 21:08
Subject:
Re: A 'permanent' keyword
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432659946.1602828.1636578463736@mail.yahoo.com
> On Wednesday, 10 November 2021, 21:57:56 CET, Dan Book <grinnz@gmail.com> wrote: 
> Thanks for explaining, this is new terminology for me - unrelated to the concept of dynamic scope used in the > documentation (runtime scoping).>> Perhaps an addition to the documentation could be made, but this seems like expected behavior to me.
Hmm, I didn't know the term "runtime scoping" was used. I just pulled the latest Perl from github and did a `git grep -i 'runtime scoping' and it returned no results.
I made up the term "dynamic scoping" because I didn't know there was a term for it. I don't see anything in in the pod/ directory that matches this, either.
I definitely think there's room for improvement in the docs, but I'm loathe to submit a patch to further confuse the documentation if there's already something there that I missed.
Best,Ovid  
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