RE: perl -we '$00' dies in 5.32

> 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

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• perl -we '$00' dies in 5.32 by "Konovalov, Vadim" via perl5-porters
• Re: perl -we '$00' dies in 5.32 by Walt Mankowski
• Re: perl -we '$00' dies in 5.32 by James E Keenan
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• RE: perl -we '$00' dies in 5.32 by "Konovalov, Vadim" via perl5-porters
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• RE: perl -we '$00' dies in 5.32 by "Konovalov, Vadim" via perl5-porters
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• Re: perl -we '$00' dies in 5.32 by Marco Fontani
• Re: perl -we '$00' dies in 5.32 by Bram
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