[Chicago-talk] Two Perl curiosities

Alan Mead amead2 at alanmead.org
Tue May 19 11:23:40 PDT 2015


On 5/19/2015 1:15 PM, Doug Bell wrote:
> $b always exists as a global variable, because it's used by sort().
> It's why people tend to avoid using $a and $b in examples or ever,
> because they could be clobbered by a sort() at any time.

I was not aware that a sort would clobber $a and $b, that's good to know.

> The : in variable declarations would allow you to set a variable's
> attributes, which is rarely used. In that syntax, Perl just thinks
> you've set no attributes.

Ah, I see.

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