On Fri, 15 Sep 2006 01:03:18 +0200, Georg Moritz wrote: > The error is thrown at the moment the <> oprator tries to assign to $_, > which is an alias to a constant - the '1'. > > Common pitfall ;-)
I know it's a pitfall, I put it in a chapter called "Perl Pitfalls" in my first book :-) It's just not common enough for me to remember it all the time. > The <> operator does no further aliasing, it operates upon $_ at its > "current aliasing level". Which makes me wonder why. The documentation is clear that <> doesn't localize $_. Why not? Just so that if someone wanted to get at the last value after the loop they could do it without an extra variable? -- Peter Scott http://www.perlmedic.com/ http://www.perldebugged.com/
