At 11:01 PM +0100 11/13/04, Leopold Toetsch wrote: >Matt Fowles <ubermatt@gmail.com> wrote: > > I get the feeling that this is equivalent to requiring exception >> handlers to be a locally defined closure, which is another way we >> could go about this. > >Yes. That solves it. OTOH going all along with lexicals could be pretty >inefficient. We're dealing with languages that pretty much mandate inefficiency in many ways. Since, for example, it's completely reasonable (well, likely at least) for a called sub to rebind lexicals in its parent, refetching's pretty much required. -- Dan --------------------------------------it's like this------------------- Dan Sugalski even samurai dan@sidhe.org have teddy bears and even teddy bears get drunkThread Previous | Thread Next