Re^4: Make $^V and "my" implicit

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Re^5: Make $^V and "my" implicit by chromatic (Archbishop) on Feb 03, 2014 at 19:56 UTC
Pre-declaration can be achieved by assigning an empty string or an empty list. Now you've overloaded the assignment operator to perform both declaration and assignment, depending on its second operand. How far are you going to take this? Does this apply only to constant operands? What if you assign an empty string returned from a function? What if you want to clear a variable in an inner scope? How do you disambiguate between assignment and declaration then?	[reply]
Re^5: Make $^V and "my" implicit by ikegami (Patriarch) on Feb 06, 2014 at 02:53 UTC
Are you suggesting we declare variables using `$x = undef;` instead of `my $x;`? It doesn't sound like a good thing to me. It's longer, and it's less clear. And of course, you'd need a new way to undefine variables. If you're not talking about replacing all `my $x;` with `$x = undef;`, then it's not a declaration, and it would make it impossible to catch typos.	[reply] [d/l] [select]