Re: assign to magic name-of-function variable instead of "return"

[Bart Lateur]

On Sun, 4 Feb 2001 15:43:29 -0500, James Mastros wrote:

>The $__ option seems a lot better to me, because there's no syntatical
>reason against self-reference.  ($^R for return might be a better name --
>unless we've already used that for somthing else.  Nope.)

What do you mean, "nope"? It *is* in use. The (?{...})
embed-perl-code-in-a-regex feature sets it. With a return value. Hah.

BTW I think the whole idea is bad. I like "return FOO". Neat and simple.
At least it's independent of the sub's name. I wish this could be
extended to doing recursive calls without having to say the subs own
name, again.

-- 
        Bart.