From: theschof@... (TheSchof)
Date: 2002-01-20T08:20:48+09:00
Subject: Re: $_ as default parameter for a function

According to the pickaxe book, $_ is local to the current scope.  (I suppose
there are some exceptions for the Perl derived vars, to make it thread safe?)

Alexander Schofield

> So, it looks like $_ gets scribbled on as we enter the method.
> As I say, global variables, whose values are changed by code I
> didn't write explicitly are not my idea of useful programming
> features :-( !!