On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 04:33:19PM -0700, Michael G Schwern wrote: : I'm not making an argument against %_, just noting that *_ is used : opportunisticly and you will break a few programs.
Not necessarily. If Perl 6 were to use %_ as parameter name, it would be lexically scoped, and hide any package %_ only in that scope. Larry
