Re^3: Do not understand code

Actually I would expect $ARGV for $_ to mostly be a side effect of @ARGV for @_. This also works for other punctuation variables and their english versions

perl -MEnglish -E "@; = q<Hi>; say @SUBSEP"
Hi
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It's not a name that perl parses, but I'd expect pretty much everyone here to understand what "the default variable" refers too.

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Re^4: Do not understand code by LanX (Saint) on Oct 02, 2017 at 16:25 UTC
> to understand what "the default variable" refers too. We could consider adding $DEF or $DEFAULT for $_ to Perl. > `@; = q<Hi>; say @SUBSEP` I suppose these are just glob aliases, that's why they work for all types associated to a symbol. Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language and ☆☆☆☆ :) Je suis Charlie!}	[reply] [d/l]
Re^5: Do not understand code by Eily (Monsignor) on Oct 02, 2017 at 17:01 UTC
I suppose these are just glob aliases, that's why they work for all types associated to a symbol. Yup, as confirmed by reading the code for English. @- and $- have different names though, so only the ARRAY and SCALAR portion of the glob are used in those cases. I was about to say that if you want to have a longer name instead of $_ you can just use a lexical instead (I was thinking of for loops), but I forgot about grep and map where you have to use $_. $CURRENT would work in those cases.	[reply]