in reply to Re^4: Why doesn't Perl provide %_ as the hash equivalent of @_ in subs? (ugly++)
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Like with $&, $`, $' you would only have a performance hit if you actually used it.

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Re^6: Why doesn't Perl provide %_ as the hash equivalent of @_ in subs? (ugly++)
by tobyink (Canon) on Sep 28, 2013 at 07:13 UTC

    In recent versions of Perl there's virtually no performance hit using these variables any more.

    use Moops; class Cow :rw { has name => (default => 'Ermintrude') }; say Cow->new->name
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