Re: a case for multiple environments - expressing modules more naturally

[steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@...>]

On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 8:08 AM, Shawn Fox <shawnkfox@gmail.com> wrote:
> cleaner syntax instead of having to assign to a magic variable.  loadin is a
> great solution for this when your code exists in a separate file, but there
> ought to be a way to do this using a control block as well, perhaps a "doin"
> statement:

Well, we were briefly shown in env do .. end.  It could still be
revived as appropriate sugar over _ENV manipulation.

Roberto has said that many uses of _ENV _should_ be ugly, because it
indicates that environment hacking is happening.

But the common case of creating a module should be as clean and
intuitive as possible.

steve d.