From: Philippe Bruhat (BooK) <book@cpan.org> > However, these variables prefixed with 0 sound very fragile and confusing to me. > > (The following examples were run under perl 5.32.1.) > > $ perl -E '$0999 > = 999; say $0999' > Numeric variables with more than one digit may not start > with '0' at -e line 1. All your examples are about $999, which is a special variable for regexps. Neither $00 nor $0 has any relation to regexp, so behaviour is predictably different. Not a big deal, actually. I accept the point that my usage of perl is often non-common, with lots of non-standard approaches, so no-one else uses $00, so dropping $00 support is ok. Internal Use - ConfidentialThread Previous | Thread Next