my $var; syntax would go away... or at least be less necessary. In almost all cases you want a lexical variable and use strict; doesn't allow you to use $var anyways. So what'd I'd like to see is my become a mostly unnecessary reserved word, make $var a lexical variable by default, e.g. my $var; be the same as $var. my would only be needed for redeclaration's and back compat. It could be enabled with a pragma or something like use feature 'lexical';. There might be some reason I'm completely wrong or stupid, but this doesn't seem like a bad idea, and of course our, state, local would still need to exist.UPDATE: the point of this would be to make variables lexically scoped by default as opposed to there current global default.
