> Damian Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >Hence, making C<%_> mean something different in core Perl 5 might possibly be > >"forwards incompatible".
Representing the Backwards Compatiblity Police, I've had co-workers use %_ as the globalist of all global hashes. %_ transends all packages and scopes and Perl does not localize it, touch it or use it as it does @_ and $_. In the particular case I'm thinking of, it was used to hold global arguments for function calls in a template system. Rather insane, really. Lots of better ways to do it and clearly making use of an undefined language feature. I'm not making an argument against %_, just noting that *_ is used opportunisticly and you will break a few programs. -- It's Crack Cocaine time!
