On Sun, Sep 29, 2002 at 09:31:46PM -0000, Smylers wrote: > Consider this Perl 5: > > while (<>) > { > # ... > foreach my $fruit (qw<apple banana cherry>) > { > # ... > } > } > > Inside the inner loop C<$_> still holds the current line. In the > equivalent Perl 6 syntax, insider the inner loop C<$_> will be an alias > of C<$fruit> and there wouldn't be any way of getting the current line.
Well, there's always $OUTER::_ and $OUTER::OUTER::_ etc if you _really_ need them. -- Paul Johnson - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pjcj.net