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G'day Rolf,

"Can anyone guess of a special var other than $_ where aliasing might make sense?"

I made a quick scan through perlvar and nothing leapt out at me as being appropriate for this.

"Otherwise shouldn't we make a feature request to throw a compilation error? (At least under strict or warnings?)"

I'm not sold on making it a fatal error but I do think a warning may be appropriate. I had a look at "warnings: Category Hierarchy" but didn't think any existing category was really suitable: maybe create a new top-level category or a new sub-category of "syntax".

— Ken

In reply to Re^2: foreach $1 by kcott
in thread foreach $1 by choroba

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