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		jschwartzi on June 24, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Perl 7 is going to be Perl 5.32, mostly The problem is that nobody ever tells you these things, the documentation doesn’t cover them and as a result everyone still uses the terrible original syntax.

gbacon on June 24, 2020 [–]

What do you mean the documentation doesn’t cover them?

https://perldoc.perl.org/perlvar.html#SPECIAL-VARIABLES

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