>>>>> "Shlomi" == Shlomi Fish <shlo...@shlomifish.org> writes:
Shlomi> I also tend to avoid using "$_" (except for map/grep/etc. where Shlomi> it is required), because it can be clobbered and devastated too Shlomi> easily, which also makes depending on it error prone. Well, that's interesting. I've *never* accidentally clobbered $_. Nearly everything that uses $_ localizes it immediately, except for the implicit assignment to $_ during a while-reading-filehandle loop, or being the target of a s/old/new/ operation, which I consider something to learn properly in the first few hours of Perl because it happens so often. Can you give an example from your old code where you "accidentally" clobbered $_? -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <mer...@stonehenge.com> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http://methodsandmessages.posterous.com/ for Smalltalk discussion -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
