In a message dated Sat, 6 Jul 2002, Sean O'Rourke writes: > - Implicit currying variables ($^a etc) are in. I thought I had read > somewhere they were gone in favor of closure args, but people seem > to be using them, and they're not hard to put in.
My understanding is that they still exist as placeholder variables, but
no longer implicitly curry. I.e.,
{$^a + $^b}
is a synonym for
-> $a, $b {$a + $b}
Trey
