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On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 12:38:50PM -0500, David L. Nicol wrote: > while pseudocoding something I realized that it would be really > cool if there was another magical default shelf, like $_ or _ but > subtly different, that stores, if lexically used, the object of the > most recent "defined" or "exists" -- > > or maybe even the most recently referred to scalar, just the way > "it" works in English. "it" would change much more often than $_ > does. *quiver* Please god no. Its difficult enough to follow the twists and abuses of $_ when reading code. That aside, could you put together a code example of what this wins? -- Michael G. Schwern <schwern@pobox.com> http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Perl6 Quality Assurance <perl-qa@perl.org> Kwalitee Is Job One Death follows me like a wee followey thing. -- QuakemanThread Previous | Thread Next