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Re: Using $_ as a temp var, especially in functions

by erikharrison (Deacon)
on Oct 23, 2002 at 04:26 UTC ( [id://207294]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Using $_ as a temp var, especially in functions

$_ is really not what you want. Whenever you'd say "it" in English then use $_, because that's what it is there for. Makes things clean, and it's what I, as the maintainer and reader of your code, expect.

A variable which keeps track of the last variable used has also been mused about in the past. I think it was even implemented in an experiment(this from when I was a member of p5p). The symantics are hard to tie down, and it only leads to obfuscation - it doesn't make one liners clearer, and makes larger programs into a twist of backreferences, all alike.

Cheers,
Erik

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