"anonymous" variable in Perl?

From: Ronald Fischer (ronaldf_at_eml.cc)
Date: 11/30/04 

Date: 30 Nov 2004 01:29:08 -0800

Consider a call to, say, localtime, where I only need the current month:

my ($a, $b, $c, $d, $month) = localtime time,

Here I had to invent names ($a...$d) for the first four fields. Is it possible
in Perl to have kind of an "anonymous" variable as a placeholder for those
fields, similar to the '_' variable in Prolog?

I darkly remember to have read about such a feature introduced with Perl 5.6,
but I can't find out how to do it.

Ronald

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