Re: [FWP] string increment

[John Porter <jdporter@min.net>]

David L. Nicol wrote:
> 
>     perl -le'$_=aaaa;1while print,s/[^z]+/++($x=$&)/e'
> 
> I do not understand the point behind having $\d and $& and so forth
> treated like constants.  

OTOH, why does magical string increment need to be so special?
Why shouldn't we be able to do  $&+'1'  ?

(JARQ; it's because $&+'10' isn't -- and can't be -- well defined.)

-- 
John Porter

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