Why isn't 
push @a;

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equivalent to 
push @a,$_;

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also why isn't 

push;

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the same as: 
push @_,$_;

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..randomly,it seems that sometimes good ole $_ works as in: 

split /,/; # knows what to default to...

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Might as well have defaulted everything to something; allowing code to be more concise, succinct, and economical. It would be awesome to have some PerVars that we could use to set the default scalar, array, and hash..

Larry what were you thinking? When we discussed this at OSCON, you seemed to favor defaults as a default ?

In reply to Why doesn't Perl default (more) by misterperl

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