I rarely use the old $$ syntax these days

It's amazing how quickly we change.

I used to always use the 'old' syntax on the rare occasion that I attempted to use references. That was until a few people in The Monastery explained references in a way that made them finally click, and someone showed me the 'modern' syntax. I now use references regularly and always use the modern syntax.

Recently I looked at a bit of my own code from a while ago and it took me a while to work out what was going on thanks to $$!

hippo - you say you rarely use the old syntax. That implies that occasionally you do. Is there any situation where the 'old' syntax is preferable or even required?

In reply to Re^2: Reading session data by Bod
in thread Reading session data by PeterKaagman

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