in reply to Does %_ have a function or is it just for fun?

Punctuation variables don't trigger strict errors or "used only once" warnings, even if they have no use.

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Re^2: Does %_ have a function or is it just for fun?
by derby (Abbot) on Jul 16, 2007 at 20:21 UTC

    and that's documented in the Technical Note on the Syntax of Variable Names in perlvar.

    -derby