On Thu, 3 Nov 2005, Sam Vilain wrote:
That being said, there are probably other more pressing reasons that ops should not accept $_ as default; I would guess, for a start, it makes determining semantics very difficult. Does ++; mean &postfix:<++> or &prefix:<++> ?
If we had it, I think we would be more interested in it for incrementing $_ than for its return value, so it wouldn't make such a huge difference. However I find myself using $var++ much more often than ++$var, and I'm biased to think this is the general situation: if it is actually so, then the choice should fall on the former. If my impression is just a personal artifact... oh, don't mind!
Michele -- Billy: I'm scared Poncho. Poncho: Bullshit! You ain't afraid of no man! Billy: There's something out there waiting for us, and it ain't no man. We're all gonna die. - Predator (1987)
