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
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