It's not the condition you would want to check, it's the variable (e.g.
$line).
-Original Message-
From: Melvin Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 3:15 PM
To: Tzadik Vanderhoof
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Night of the Living Lexical (seque
Why all the fuss? Often, you would *want* to access that lexical after the
loop terminates, for instance to check how it terminated.
-Original Message-
From: Michael G Schwern [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 2:59 PM
To: Melvin Smith
Cc: Larry Wall; Damian Conway
Hi. I've had a feature in mind for a while now, but I missed my chance to
make it an RFC. I was told that I could still present it by using this
list, so here goes.
There is a (relatively) new feature of the $/ variable which allows you to
set it to a numeric reference, i.e:
$/ = \80;
This
