On 20 Sep 2002, Aaron Sherman wrote: : I assumed that's what C<//=$_> was. It does have the disadvantage of : looking like variable assignment, though.
BTW, latest leaning is toward = rather than //= for parameter defaults, since it can, in fact, be undef if the parameter is supplied, while //= seems to imply otherwise. And //= is too visually disruptive to the signature. Larry