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.
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 versusthisin OO contexts in Javascript, but, at least to me, that feels pretty tenuous.