Hi blazar,

I agree with you that these are two different variable systems, and the implementation of lexicals is only half way... mainly because a lot of actions on packagevars are not possible with lexicals.

But personally I prefer halfway to nothing!

> OTOH not only do I cherish the way Perl 6 solves the issue by implementing lexical variables as package variables thus unifying the two systems into one, ...

please, could you give me a link explaining this magical unification? My fantasy fails to imagine lexicals as package-vars ... or what exactly do you mean with "lexical variables as package variables" ???

OTH it shouldn't be that difficult to harmonize these two systems... eg. with something like a dynamic hash %PAD for the active block as equivalent to stashes like %main:: ! %PAD would replace the use of padwalker.

Cheers LanX

In reply to Re^5: Indirect variable name by LanX
in thread Indirect variable name by FreakyGreenLeaky

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