Ah. The usually implicit topical “this” didn’t even occur to me because I thought, er, this, was about objects. $_ isn’t used for those in Perl.
I suppose there might be some parallels with the implicit nature of $_ in non-OO contexts in Perl versus this in OO contexts in Javascript, but, at least to me, that feels pretty tenuous.
I mean
$_
.Ah. The usually implicit topical “this” didn’t even occur to me because I thought, er, this, was about objects.
$_
isn’t used for those in Perl.I suppose there might be some parallels with the implicit nature of
$_
in non-OO contexts in Perl versusthis
in OO contexts in Javascript, but, at least to me, that feels pretty tenuous.