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 to object constructors (all of which implicitly have a >slurpy hash), C<%_> might well be the automatically provided name for that >hash. See Exegesis 12 for more details. ;-) > >Hence, making C<%_> mean something different in core Perl 5 might possibly be >"forwards incompatible".
This wouldn't have been a core Perl 5 thing but a (module) Tk thing. But if Perl 6 is giving it a meaning I will avoid it (unless a slurpy hash is what I meant - I haven't kept up the Perl6 jargon.)
