davem@[...].com (Dave Mitchell) writes:
>  > Or would that make access by name too slow?

>  It's how Perl5 does it (very roughly speaking)


This is a reminder that people new to developing VMs may find it useful
to leaf through http://www.netthink.co.uk/downloads/internals.pdf and
http://www.netthink.co.uk/downloads/internals for the Perl 5 internals
tutorial; there's stuff on lexical variables there, for instance.

-- 
You want to read that stuff, fine. You want to create a network for such 
things, fine. You want to explore the theoretical boundaries of free speech, 
fine. But when it starts impacting *people* trying to *communicate*, then 
that is where I draw the line. - Russ Allbery, http://www.slacker.com/rant.html