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Newsgroups: perl.perl6.language
From: dam...@conway.org (Damian Conway)
Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2002 08:59:47 +1000
Local: Mon, Aug 5 2002 6:59 pm
Subject: Re: perl6-language@perl.org
Chip observed:
> Yes, I got that, and I even kind of like it. It's the idea that this See my comment below. > might work as a "temp sub", rather than a "my sub", that I'm not at > all sanguine about. > Why, it's almost surely bad even for your sample scenario! Imagine Code like that (which relies on the poorly specified standard values of > what might happen inside &DBI::execute if the values of boolean ops > change globally. You'll break simple stuff like: > @socket[$hostname eq 'localhost'] truth and falsehood) *deserves* to break. See me argument at the end of this message. > Yes, if you somehow manage to fix numification you'll be OK with this I *thoroughly* agree. I totally agree. > specific case, but I hope the principle is clear: Lexical overrides > good, global overrides bad^Wextremely hazardous. But that won't stop me from telling people how to do bad things when they ask. ;-) BTW, I would strongly argue that Perl ought to have a *proper* boolean type. Damian You must Sign in before you can post messages.
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