Rafael Garcia-Suarez <rgs <at> consttype.org> writes: >So, to be clear: $_ is still global by default due to the need for >backwards compatibility. >Other punctuation variables do not suffer from this drawback. For >example the $1, $2... capture variables are already automatically >lexicalised. IMHO, the situation with $1 is rather an ugly mess and should not be extended to anything else... but that's a whole nother topic I hope. -- Ed Avis <eda@waniasset.com>Thread Previous | Thread Next