> The fact that neither $00 nor $0 has any relation to regular expressions is > irrelevant, because ALL identifiers that start with digits are reserved in > Perl. $0, for instance, is the name of the program being executed. Regexp ones are read-only, $0 isn't > > > 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. > > It seems to me the fact that you were ever able to use $00 was a bug in those > versions of Perl which has now been fixed. No $ perl -we '$0="qwerty"; print $0' qwerty there is a concept that perl can "lie" itself on $0 Internal Use - ConfidentialThread Previous | Thread Next