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