[Gllug] More Microsoft patents

[rich at annexia.org]

On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 03:01:49PM +0000, Doug Winter wrote:
> Yes.  This doesn't avoid the implied variable business though.  $_ and
> @_ and friends.

In real world Perl programs, $_ is only used for short distances between
adjacent statements. If you're using it across pages of code, then your
code is (probably intentionally) obscure, and it almost certainly won't
work either because of the side-effects of calling library functions.

And any Perl program beyond the smallest command-line hack should 'use
strict' and '-wT'.

Rich.

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