Re: A new golf "Reversi" has started

In article <[email protected]>,
	Daniel Tiefnig <[email protected]> writes:
> $ perl -le 'print$^H;print$^H'
> 256
> 256
> 
> But:
> 
> $ perl -le 'print$^H,$^H'
> 00
> 
Yup, $^H is *very* magic. In practise in all cases you really USE it, it 
tends to be 256. Even on uses that are "single" like:

-p0 for$n((0,7..9,7)x$){$_=reverse,s/\.(?=.{$n}(x.{$n})+o)/*/s}	(64)

For how exactly it does this, you'll have to read the 
source code I'm afraid. In the docs it comes with a:

Its availability, behavior, and contents are subject to change without notice.