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From:
Simon Cozens
Date:
May 30, 2001 10:48
Subject:
Re: 1 until defined(getvalue()); return it;
Message ID:
20010530184853.A14209@deep-dark-truthful-mirror.pmb.ox.ac.uk
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 12:38:50PM -0500, David L. Nicol wrote:
> or maybe even the most recently referred to scalar, just the way
> "it" works in English.  "it" would change much more often than $_
> does.

*Nice*, but potentially a bugger to implement. I'm also sure you
can find semantic ambiguity in there if you look hard enough, but
can't come up with any example off hand.

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