Glen Starchman <glen / enabledventures.com> wrote: > > > 1 is the request that there be a pragma to (lexically) > > disallow declaring a variable by just assigning to it. > > > >Are you talking about something like VBs (GASP!) Option Explicit for #1? > My actual inspiration is actually Perl's strict pragma. Specifically strict "vars". The third request is a variation on strict "subs". Perl and Ruby are syntactically different enough that strict "refs" wouldn't appear to be translatable. Cheers, Ben _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com