John Douglas Porter wrote:
> Peter Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> The documentation is clear that <> doesn't
>> localize $_. Why not?
>> Just so that if someone wanted to get at the last
>> value after the loop they could do it without an extra variable?
>
> With all this talk of local $_, I
Peter Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The documentation is clear that <> doesn't
> localize $_. Why not?
> Just so that if someone wanted to get at the last
> value after the loop they could do it without an extra variable?
With all this talk of local $_, I feel compelled to
point out an insi
On Fri, 15 Sep 2006 01:03:18 +0200, Georg Moritz wrote:
> The error is thrown at the moment the <> oprator tries to assign to $_,
> which is an alias to a constant - the '1'.
>
> Common pitfall ;-)
I know it's a pitfall, I put it in a chapter called "Perl Pitfalls" in my
first book :-) It's just
