Larry Wall writes: > I think if we have to go through contortions to get at the outer topic > by name, it's better to just name the variable on the outer loop in the > first place. Adding -> $varname to the outer loop is safe, because it > doesn't change the semantics of topicality--now that we changed the > rule so that $_ is always aliased to the topic regardless of whether > it's aliased to an explicit variable name. > > Larry
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