Re: [Fun With Perl] A Very Important Question

[Ronald J Kimball <rjk@linguist.dartmouth.edu>]

On Sat, Jun 12, 1999 at 03:06:39PM -0500, Tushar Samant wrote:
> What do you call $_?
> 
> Does the Camel book call it something, like it calls "{}" Larry and Moe?
> I don't have it here.
> 
> I am provisionally calling it "bottom". But the reason is so I can say:
> 
>     $$_ =~ y/0/1/; bless $_; #bless thee, Bottom, thou art translated!
> 
> A co-employee in my work-environment with Perl5 skill-set calls it "dude",
> and says that this "bottom" nonsense is annoying and dumb.
> 
> Since both of us are ISO9000-compliant, Y2K-resilient, and 100% object-
> oriented, the only way I can win the argument is by claiming that I am 
> infinitely scalable. But I don't want to lie.
> 
> Could the community of this portal settle our human-resource crisis and
> resolve the deadlock in our software development cycle? Certified experts
> only, please...
> 

$_ is the 'default variable'.  I call it 'dollar-underscore'.  The English
name is $ARG.

Does that help?

Ronald

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