From: gwtmp01@...
Date: 2006-10-06T07:50:55+09:00
Subject: Re: 1st program -- how would you improve this?


On Oct 5, 2006, at 5:49 PM, David Vallner wrote:
> I also strongly disapprove of the Perl-ish use of global variables  
> that
> get set as a side-effect of a regex match. Notably because that's a)
> relying on a side-effect of a function on b) a global variable. But
> coding everything explicitly is a personal pet peeve of mine.

Just because they start with a $ doesn't mean they are global.  I  
believe
$1, $2 and so on are actually per thread local variables.

Gary Wright