> On 26 Oct 2020, at 18:40, Sean McAfee <eef...@gmail.com> wrote: > Is this the intended behavior? The doc page on quoting constructs just says > that values can be interpolated with braces, but (at least to my eyes) > doesn't suggest that this involves creating a new scope, or a new function, > or however it is that this happens.
I guess we need to update the documentation. But the braces inside a double quoted string *do* create a new scope, causing the behaviour of ++$ that you have seen. > For my presentation I can just alter some lines to: > > say "You called me ", ++$times, " times"; > > and > > say "You called me ", ++$, " times"; > > ...but that seems a bit less elegant than what I had originally. Alternately you could do: say "You called me " ~ ++$ ~ " times"; Personally, I would avoid the use of the anonymous state variable. I think it is an example where Larry would nowadays apply rule #2. Liz
