in reply to Hashkey stringification ... sometimes.

For those just tuning in to Perl, notice that _ (underline, underbar, or just bar) is a legal identifier, hence a legal sub name and method name.

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Re: Re: Hashkey stringification ... sometimes.
by Anomynous Monk (Scribe) on Mar 30, 2004 at 02:13 UTC
    But remember that it defaults to package main if no explicit package is specified, whether you use $_, @_, %_, or _: 
    $ perl -we'package Foo; sub _ { print "hi" } package Bar; _; main::_'
hihi

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