Re: [Boston.pm] pos on string in hash

[Ronald J Kimball]

On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 11:07:53AM -0400, Daniel R. Allen wrote:
> 
> I did find out that as of perl5.6 you can have variable names such as
> ${^Hi} where the ^H is actually 'ctrl-h'.
> 
> But I'm not sure why this is useful.
> 

Because Perl has already used most of the special global $^X variables,
without running out of uses for special global variables.

(e.g. $^W, $^I, and $^O.)

Ronald