Re: Whimsical Question

Not very imaginative, but I read in a perldoc somewhere that it's pronounced
"dollar-under." A little better than having the "score" on the end I guess.

-Bill

On 3/29/06, Timothy Johnson <tjohnson@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


I sometimes call it the "magic variable".


-----Original Message-----
From: Ryan Frantz [mailto:ryanfrantz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 5:03 AM
To: beginners@xxxxxxxx
Subject: Whimsical Question

Perlers,

<snip>

I realized this after reading over example code in the
Alpaca and it got me to wondering: _Is_ there a name for '$_' ? For
example, when I see '#!', I read 'shebang' and it rolls off the tongue,
but 'dollar underscore' is clumsy. Does anyone know if a name exists?
If not, do any of you have pet name for it?

<snip>



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