Re: What is the global hash %_ ?

ozarfreo@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
If it is not listed in perlvar then perl doesn't care what you do with it.
Then is there any reason for it to be treated specially?

All Sigil-Punctuation variables are special, whether perl uses them or not.


John
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