qbxk,
No offense, but this likely has to do with your lack of exposure to pure functional languages. In some languages, variables can't change value so it is moot. It does kind of make you wonder why they still call them variables. In other languages, you need to desginate this behavior (default being eager) which is a visual indicator like tie.

We are of course talking about Perl, not other languages, so your point is well taken. Re: Evaluating variables when called is an example of such a desire. I am kind of interested in where Perl 6 will go with this.

Cheers - L~R

In reply to Re^3: On Wormholes, Time-Travel and Closures by Limbic~Region
in thread On Wormholes, Time-Travel and Closures by liverpole

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