Re: [FWP] 4294967295

["Brian L. Matthews" <blm@halcyon.com>]

At 6:24 PM -0700 7/12/99, Vicki Brown wrote:
|$_ is not a read-only variable.

At 7:01 PM -0700 7/12/99, Rick Delaney wrote:
|But now I don't get why $_ should ever be read-only.

Consider:

foreach ('hello')
{
    s/a/b/;
}

I also think it's read-only before you assign something to it (either
explicitly or implicitly), but I couldn't get any perl to complain, so
either I'm incorrect about that part or it's just with perls newer than I
have (easy) access to.

Brian



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