On Thu, 17 Mar 2005, Larry Wall wrote:
really short alias for $self. Suppose we pick "o" for that, short
for "object". Then we get self calls of the form:
o.frobme(...)
How 'bout ..frobme(...)? Or would it be a hell to tell from C<..>?
(Mnemonic reminder: '.'=myself, '..'=my mom - poor analogy, actually!)
How 'bout a single underscore? _.frobme()?!?
Michele
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