$^H does not have the special properties that $^C does, but $^H does have an initial value of 256.
Hmm. Does anyone know how to explain the following?
$ perl -le 'print$^H' 0 $ perl -le 'print$^H++' 256
One could guess now $^H is set to 256 just when a modification is attempted. But:
$ perl -le 'print$^H;$^H' 256
Or even:
$ perl -le 'print$^H;print$^H' 256 256
But:
$ perl -le 'print$^H,$^H' 00
I'm unillumined, and my Camel (3rd Ed.) only says I'll suffer horrible death, if I touch it. perlvar(1) of Debians Perl 5.8.2 is a little more chatty, but it doesn't say anything about that behaviour, and I anyways tend to believe the thing with horror and such..
lg, daniel
