Re: Eliminate dynamic variables entirely?

>> Furthermore, in the "more rope" department, it might be possible to make
>> local() work on my() variables this way.
>
> I'm still unsure if this is a good thing. I think it is, but it's worth
> some pondering.
>
> -Nate
>

  In the programming languages class I took last year, we wrote an
interpreter in Scheme for several variants of a Scheme-like language.
It is quite possible to have a language that only has lexical
variables but allows dynamic assignment for those variables.  Just
about anything you would want to do with a dynamic variable can be
done with dynamic assignment.

  Now, whether or not Perl can be written to do this remains to be
seen.  (But I suspect it is possible if the implementers start with
lexicals, then add in dynamic assignment, and add in dynamic scoping
later or never.)


J. David
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