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>This is trivial to do now that there's a real record facility

Last I heard, there's still no way for a function to masquerade as a variable. Has this changed?

>One thing I do like is that parameters are lexically distinct from regular variables, so it's always obvious whether some particular variable is lexical or fluid.

See one of my other replies for a usecase of dynamically bound functions (intercepting calls to a function within a certain dynamic extent) that makes me wish otherwise.



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