Re: [FWP] the "it" hack

["Abigail" <abigail@foad.org>]

On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 11:35:57PM -0500, David L. Nicol wrote:
> 
> Hi everyone
> 
> Here is my first piece of perl source code hacking.  As predicted,
> it was trivial, requiring modifications to only nine files in the
> 5.7.1 source:
> 
> opcode.pl
> hv.c
> pp.c
> toke.c
> intrpvar.h
> mg.c
> av.c
> keywords.h
> embed.pl
> 
> The attached patch defines a  pointer-to-sv stash where the perl
> operations "defined" and "exists" store a copy of whatever they
> were determining the definedness or existence of; also a new
> operator, C<it> which provides (read-only) access to the stash.

Nice, but I think $it would be slightly more useful, as that interpolates
easier than it().

However, if it is a function, what does it do with list context?

    @a = (1 .. 5);
    defined @a;
    print it;

Does that print 12345?


If not, should it? ;-)




Abigail

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