That rules out function calls and other invisible things that might play around with $_.

Unfortunately in Perl nearly everything can do invisible things that might play around with $_. You think something like $x + $y is safe? Wrong if $x is an object that overloads '+' operator. Or do you think that, say, hash access is safe? Again it may be not if hash is tied. Besides to my taste map and grep constructs often are much more ideomatic than corresponding for construct that I simply don't want to rule out function calls because my code will be less pretty.

In my opinion there is no excuse for not localizing $_ in a low level code.

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In reply to Re: Re:x3 Using $_ as a temp var, especially in functions by IlyaM
in thread Using $_ as a temp var, especially in functions by BUU

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