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From: rbj@uunet.UU.NET (Root Boy Jim)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Weird response of "next" inside sub?
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Date: 12 Mar 91 05:53:54 GMT
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In article <1991Mar11.193009.19297@convex.com> tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) writes:
?From the keyboard of rbj@uunet.UU.NET (Root Boy Jim):
?:Also, I am reluctant to
?:use eval often, even in LISP. I find the scoping slightly more
?:difficult to figure out.
?
?It's no different than at any other time: it's dynamic, which 
?means you can see something if your caller could.  This is
?what often confuses people, most of whom are used to lexical 
?scoping.  Of course, once you bring pass-by-reference and
?pass-by-name into the picture, you quickly find yourself caught
?it a maze of twisty, turn pathways, all alike.

Actually, I prefer dynamic scoping over lexical scoping.
I guess I was trying to convince myself that using eval
produced a third kind of scope, but I guess not.
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