From: "Peña, Botp" <botp@...>
Date: 2005-07-30T17:16:06+09:00
Subject: Re: make local var visible

William James [mailto:w_a_x_man@yahoo.com] wrote:

#You say that you are converting Perl code, which is usually full of
#$'s and @'s, so this probably looks no worse than what you would
#have converted it from:
#
#$x=1
#
#def mx1
#   p $x
#end
#
#mx1
#p $x
#
#def mx2
#   $x = 2
#   p $x
#end
#
#mx2
#p $x
#
#

not worse, but bad nonetheless. I already told them that they do not need
the dollar, and now i'm asking it back. And the dollars look like snakes
too. 

I'm using constants notation for now, the code looks funny with variable
standing out. I guess funny is better than bad.

thanks and kind regards -botp