Re: A new golf "Reversi" has started

Rick Klement wrote:
> $^H does not have the special properties that $^C does, but $^H does 
> have an initial value of 256.

Hmm. Does anyone know how to explain the following?

$ perl -le 'print$^H'
0
$ perl -le 'print$^H++'
256

One could guess now $^H is set to 256 just when a modification is
attempted. But:

$ perl -le 'print$^H;$^H'
256

Or even:

$ perl -le 'print$^H;print$^H'
256
256

But:

$ perl -le 'print$^H,$^H'
00


I'm unillumined, and my Camel (3rd Ed.) only says I'll suffer horrible
death, if I touch it. perlvar(1) of Debians Perl 5.8.2 is a little more
chatty, but it doesn't say anything about that behaviour, and I anyways
tend to believe the thing with horror and such..


lg,
daniel