Re: [Boston.pm] pos on string in hash

[Chris Devers]

On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, Daniel R. Allen wrote:

> Seems to be new as of 5.6.0, but they aren't listed in perldelta.
> 
> I did find out that as of perl5.6 you can have variable names such as
> ${^Hi} where the ^H is actually 'ctrl-h'.
> 
> But I'm not sure why this is useful.

My guess would be for forward compatibility with Unicode / non-western 
languages. Ctrl-H, or "^Hi" might map to a perfectly reasonable character 
in Arabic or Japanese or whatever. 
 

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