OT: Re: Just took a look in the perl newsgroup....

[Greg Ewing (using news.cis.dfn.de)]

Bengt Richter wrote:
> def f(x):
>     def g(x):
>         inner_var = 5      
>         ## a local case structure with rebinding in local scope
>         try: raise `x`
>         except '1':
>             # case code in same scope as case
>             inner_var = '<<value bound in scope of "case" 1)>>'
 >         ...

Nice try, but unfortunately it's not guaranteed to work,
since string exceptions are matched by identity rather
than value.

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Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept,
University of Canterbury,	
Christchurch, New Zealand
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