On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 12:41:13PM -0500, John Siracusa wrote: > Reading EX4 and seeing those "place-holder" variables made me wonder what > happens when someone (probably Damian ;) wants to use more than 26 of them. > Do the place-holder names scale up as if they're being automagically > incremented? (e.g. ..., y, z, aa, ab, ...)
As I understand it, those place holders could be anything. So he could have written our %operator is private //= ( '*' => { $^foo * $^bar }, '/' => { $^foo / $^bar }, '~' => { ($^foo + $^bar) / 2 }, ); and it would work just as well. -Scott -- Jonathan Scott Duff [EMAIL PROTECTED]