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From:
Rafael Garcia-Suarez
Date:
June 15, 2010 01:43
Subject:
Re: Proposed patch to perlvar.pod
Message ID:
AANLkTin1OQ3YQPt9cLNv9ucwO3BGfr30UMAXHffvnFdb@mail.gmail.com
On 9 June 2010 01:07, A. Sinan Unur <nanis@cpan.org> wrote:
> Hello:
>
> There was recent discussion on Stackoverflow.com regarding where to
> find documentation for $# (see
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2997042/ ). The poster was actually
> looking for information regarding the $#ary to get the last index of
> @ary. He expected the documentation to be in perlvar.pod when it
> actually is in perldata.pod.
>
> Given that the builtin variable $# was removed with 5.10.0, there no
> longer is an entry in perlvar.pod for $#. The attached patch inserts
> an entry into perlvar.pod for $# which points out that $# no longer
> exists and the user should consult perldata.pod for the $#ary usage.

Thanks, patch applied to bleadperl as change
db2ed3fb308b082577e9315ba52b2cb266a2bd0a

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