david nicol wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] perl -le '$_{a}=27; package notmain; print $_{a}'
> 27
>
> Gosh!
>
> Let's document it! Would it go in perlvar or perlsyn?
It's already documented, in perlvar/"Technical Note on the Syntax of Variable Names"
(at the end)
On Sat, 2003-08-02 at 18:33, Michael G Schwern wrote:
> 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 par
Odd. I always though that you could do that. Maybe it was just an
assumption I made without understanding. I've used %_ in one liners to
remove duplicates and other such fun.
Michael
On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 21:36, david nicol wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-08-02 at 18:33, Michael G Schwern wrote:
>
> > Rep
On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 04:33:19PM -0700, Michael G Schwern wrote:
> > 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
On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 08:16:19PM -0700, Larry Wall wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 04:33:19PM -0700, Michael G Schwern wrote:
> : I'm not making an argument against %_, just noting that *_ is used
> : opportunisticly and you will break a few programs.
>
> Not necessarily. If Perl 6 were to us
On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 04:33:19PM -0700, Michael G Schwern wrote:
: I'm not making an argument against %_, just noting that *_ is used
: opportunisticly and you will break a few programs.
Not necessarily. If Perl 6 were to use %_ as parameter name, it
would be lexically scoped, and hide any pac
On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 01:37:16AM +0200, Abigail wrote:
> I am fond of doing
>
> local %_ = @_;
>
> as one of the first statements of a subroutine. That, or
>
> my %args = @_;
>
> I like the latter because it uses a lexical variable, but I like the
> former because %_ fits with @_ and
> 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
Damian Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> From a Perl 6 perspective, it seems likely that C<%_> will be the name
>commonly used for the "slurpy hash" of a subroutine. Just as C<@_> will often
>be the name used for the "slurpy array". See Exegesis 6 for more details.
>
>Indeed, when it comes t
Nick Ing-Simmons wrote:
We have been discussing how to pass data to Tk callbacks.
In particular Entry widget validation routines.
There are a number of items that they _might_ be interested in
but a typical routine would only use a few.
Currently it passes them all as positional parameters.
One
We have been discussing how to pass data to Tk callbacks.
In particular Entry widget validation routines.
There are a number of items that they _might_ be interested in
but a typical routine would only use a few.
Currently it passes them all as positional parameters.
One idea that occured to me/
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