[Guido van Rossum] > I was sad because Perl seemed to use dynamic scoping when you declare a > local variable. Tim has since explained that Perl's local is in fact > ancient. I'm also sad that Perl doesn't default to locals, but that's > not my problem. Agreed. I've been using Perl since Perl 1, all the way to Perl 5. When the `local()' declaration appeared, probably around Perl 2 or Perl 3 (I do not remember), I started using it everywhere in an effort of protecting each procedure against each other. It was also a convenient way to give names to formal arguments, through "local(name1, name2, ...) = @_" as the first statement in a `sub'. When "my(LIST)" appeared, one or two major releases later, I progressively converted all my programs to use it, as it is more in the spirit of what I wanted. The overall impression that was left to me is that a lot of declarations are needed, anyway, if you consistently aim clean Perl scripts. So, there is now an "our(...)" declaration in Perl? Hopefully, it will not miss me much! :-) And who remembers the "own" specifier of Algol-60? :-) -- François Pinard http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard
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