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That all sounds great. So what's stopping you from building a module to implement buffers and putting it on CPAN right now? Surely it's possible to implement an elisp-style buffer system in Perl and/or C.

Update: I just reread your post and I see now that you're worried about localising global variables within buffers. Why? You don't mention anything about global variables in your explanation of why buffers would be great to have in Perl.

Perl 5 exposes its symbol tables and typeglobs to whatever manipulation your twisted mind can imagine. I'd be surprised if there was anything you really couldn't do with them!

-sam

In reply to Re: Re: Implementing (elisp-like) buffers in Perl 6: how to do buffer-localisation of arbitrary package variables? by samtregar
in thread Implementing (elisp-like) buffers in Perl 6: how to do buffer-localisation of arbitrary package variables? by jonadab

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