Re: Restoring the magic to the _ filehandle in Perl 5.8.9

[JavaFan]

I'm using sub _() as a means to localise text

Beside the problem you have with _ having special meaning, the other problem you have is that _ always lives in main. If you would happen to use a module that also defines a sub _, you have a problem.

As for your question of restoring magic to _, I'm afraid I don't know the question. I've used sub _ myself before, and ran into the problem, and the problem I mentioned above. I now no longer use sub _. sub __ doesn't have the mentioned problems.

[clinton]

All true. I initially used sub _ because I'd seen it used in Jifty and because it is the standard getttext way of marking text for i18n, and it worked, but yes - playing with magic does have issues.