Re: [perl #127552] No warning or error on @$

Ed Avis wrote:
>Perl silently accepts an array variable @$

$ perl -lwe '@$ = qw(a b c); print @$'
abc

The array variable works.  Making it an error would be an incompatible
change.  (However, perlvar(1) does describe punctuation variable names
as "reserved".)  If it is to be done, it should probably be done via a
deprecation cycle.

-zefram

• [perl #127552] No warning or error on @$ by Ed Avis
• Re: [perl #127552] No warning or error on @$ by Zefram
• [perl #127552] No warning or error on @$ by Ed Avis via RT
• Re: [perl #127552] No warning or error on @$ by Abigail