>Thinking about the comparision between the two RFCs there is some common
>ground, but cases where people will want your hash and cases where
>people will want explicit variables. Using RFC 112, you can do
>hash assignment, but it would not clear the hash beforehand whereas
>your hash assignment
(This thread has been inactive for a while. See
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0015 for it's short history.)
Long ago Tom Christiansen wrote:
>This is useful in that it would stop being number dependent.
>For example, you can't now safely say
>
>/$v
At 11:23 AM -0600 on 8/24/00, Tom Christiansen wrote:
>This is useful in that it would stop being number dependent.
>For example, you can't now safely say
>
>/$var (foo) \1/
>
>and guarantee for arbitrary contents of $var that your you have
>the right number backref anymore.
Good point. Tha
