On Sat, 2003-08-02 at 18:33, Michael G Schwern wrote:
> Representing the Backwards Compatiblity Police, I've had co-workers use
> %_ as the globalist of all global hashes. %_ transends all packages and
> scopes and Perl does not localize it, touch it or use it as it does @_ and
> $_. In the particular case I'm thinking of, it was used to hold global
> arguments for function calls in a template system. Rather insane, really.
> Lots of better ways to do it and clearly making use of an undefined
> language feature.
>
> I'm not making an argument against %_, just noting that *_ is used
> opportunisticly and you will break a few programs.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] perl -le '$_{a}=27; package notmain; print $_{a}'
27
Gosh!
Let's document it! Would it go in perlvar or perlsyn?
The behaviour in question is a side effect of the general magic level of
the other slots in *_, is it not?
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David Nicol /
