David Cantrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> If I have nest maps, like so ...
>
> map { map { foo } bar }
>
> is there any (elegant) way of getting at the outer map's idea of what $_
> is from within the inner map? I'd rather not use a temporary variable
> if at all possible.
You can't get away without a temporary variable. And if you need to be
able to write back to the outer $_ it gets a little trickier, but this
should work:
map { our *outer = \$_; ... ; map { foo } bar }
--
Piers
"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a language in
possession of a rich syntax must be in need of a rewrite."
-- Jane Austen?
