Enh, but then it's impossible to define subroutines that work
like built-ins such as chomp.
I do that not infrequently.
However, I wouldn't mind having to go through hoops to get
there. Perhaps a subroutine attribute would have to be set
to allow you access to $_.
sub mychomp : getunderscore {
s[${/}\z][];
}
That way, no one could clobber $_ without
intending to. And we could also add a pragma to disallow
code outside of your file (or perhaps package) from clobbering
$_ even if it wanted to.
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