Re: RFC 88: Possible problem with shared lexical scope.

[email protected] (Tony Olekshy) Tue, 22 Aug 2000 14:13:17 -0600
Newsgroups perl.perl6.language.errors
Organization Avra Software Lab Inc.
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Peter Scott wrote:
> 
> Given that even though we know the shared scope could be implemented,
> the implementors may prefer not to do it.  I would therefore reword:
> 
> > We would prefer that the blocks share a common lexical scope in the
> > way that C<continue> blocks used to; if this is deemed inappropriate,
> > this feature can simply be deleted, and the outer scope can be shared.

I added the following to RFC 88 + ISSUES + Lexical Scope:

    The authors would prefer that try, catch, and finally blocks
    share the same lexical scope.

Yours, &c, Tony Olekshy