At 06:54 PM 05-30-2001 +0100, Michael G Schwern wrote:
>On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 12:38:50PM -0500, David L. Nicol wrote:
> > while pseudocoding something I realized that it would be really
> > cool if there was another magical default shelf, like $_ or _ but
> > subtly different, that stores, if lexically used, the object of the
> > most recent "defined" or "exists" --
> >
> > or maybe even the most recently referred to scalar, just the way
> > "it" works in English. "it" would change much more often than $_
> > does.
>
>*quiver* Please god no. Its difficult enough to follow the twists and
>abuses of $_ when reading code.
>
>That aside, could you put together a code example of what this wins?
I'd be interested in seeing how "it" would be better than what works now.
Why is:
1 until defined(getvalue()); return it;
better than
1 until defined($foo=getvalue()); return foo;
?
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