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At 06:54 PM 05-30-2001 +0100, Michael G Schwern wrote: >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 $_ when reading code. > >That aside, could you put together a code example of what this wins? I'd be interested in seeing how "it" would be better than what works now. Why is: 1 until defined(getvalue()); return it; better than 1 until defined($foo=getvalue()); return foo; ? >-- > >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