On 3 Apr 2004 14:40:43 -0000
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Scott) wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Smoot Carl-Mitchell) writes:
> >On Fri, 02 Apr 2004 10:37:14 -0600
> >"JupiterHost.Net" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >> It just occurred to me that many Perl functions use $_ if not other
> >> value is supplied. chomp for instance..., which is very handy...
> >>
> >> If one wanted to write a function that used either the given
> >argument> or $_ how would you do that?
> >
> >$_ is global, so do something like:
> >
> >sub test {
> >
> > my $arg;
> > $arg = shift or $arg = $_;
> >}
>
> Same problem as the last suggestion.
And what specifically would the problem be?
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