i agree, especially since grep has the same 'unimplied' aliasing of $_.
Right, that's what I meant about discarding changes being
reasonable, but possibly in an "unperl-like way"
Remember that with grep changes made to $_ propagate in both
directions, effecting the source as well as the returned values:
"Note that $_ is an alias to the list value, so it can be used
to modify the elements of the LIST."
That side-effect of changing the source values was probably a bad idea
and getting rid of it in "extract" would be all to the good.
It is a good point that it's hard to see why you would want to
discard a modified $_ in the returned values -- if so, then why
did you modify it?
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