Re: More newbie questions...

[Johan Holmberg]

On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, Steven Knight wrote:
> 
> I just did some digging, and it turns out this is a deeply embedded
> Perlism.  From perlvar:
> 
>       Perl identifiers that begin with digits, control characters,
>       or punctuation characters are exempt from the effects of the
>       `package' declaration and are always forced to be in package
>       `main'.  A few other names are also exempt:
> 
>               ENV             STDIN
>               INC             STDOUT
>               ARGV            STDERR
>               ARGVOUT
>               SIG
> 
>       In particular, the new special `${^_XYZ}' variables are always
>       taken to be in package `main', regardless of any `package'
>       declarations presently in scope.
> 
> So there isn't much we can do to fix this, so I'll check in a change to
> the doc.  Sorry this wasn't taken care of sooner.
> 

Since these variables violates the the whole purpose of controlling
the Export/Import of variables between Conscript files, wouldn't it
be a good idea to generate an error (or at least a clearly visible
warning) if they are used in Export/Import.

/Johan Holmberg