not sure if I introduced "similar" now, but I certainly wrote "More or less" right from the begining! :-P

I think it's a bit messy that we use "lexical" for scope and variable in Perl.

That's why the documentation for our is confusing, it binds a symbol inside a lexical scope to a non-lexical variable.

> Python doesn't have sane lexicals.

Everything has a price, code looks tidier but no chance to have strict checking.