Yeah, I know that $a and $b are documented under 
perldoc strict
perldoc -f sort

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But the fact that they are mentioned there does not mean that they are properly documented. Properly documented means that when you need to find something it is in a logical place. Why would I look under either when trying to understand the strange behaviour of $a or $b? (the trouble may not be that need not be declared, it may be action at a distance) Where I would look first would be perlvar.

Frankly actually one of my few complaints about the perl documentation set is that it is poorly organized. I have encountered numerous examples of where you need to read several different docs with apparently nothing to do with each other in order to understand the behaviour of one thing that isn't documented explicitly.

Likewise on the nice day... ;-)

Yves / DeMerphq
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In reply to Re: Re: (re:x5 use strict....)$a and $b should be in perlvar by demerphq
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