Re: RFC 215 (v1) More defaulting to C<$_>.

[Nathan Torkington]

Perl6 RFC Librarian writes:
> An inconsistency between "C<print>" and "<>" bugs me:  "C<print;>" means
> "C<print $_;>" so it seems like "<>" should mean "C<$_ = > <>".
> I can't yet think of code that this extension would break.

I assume you mean that <> in void context should assign to $_?

Any code that has set $_, then uses

  <FH>;

to skip the next line, will have inadvertently trashed $_.

However, the perl526 translator can fix it by replcing void-context
<FH> with

  { local $_; <FH>; }

Nat