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
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