Re: proposed addition to perlvar

I like what you have below for both, particularly the bit about the
warnings.  Could you please re-submit them in patch format?

Thank you.
David


> How about:
>
> =item $#
>
> C<$#> used to be a variable that could be used to format printed number.
> After a deprecation cycle, its magic was removed in 5.10 and using it
> now triggers a severe warning: C<$# is no longer supported>.
>
> C<$#> is also used as sigil, which, when prepended on the name of an
> array gives the index of the last element in that array.
>
>    my @a            = ("a", "b", "c");
>    my $last_index   = $#a;     # $last_index is 2
>    my $last_element = $a[$#a]; # $last_element is "c"
>
> Also see L<perldata>.
>
>
> If we are going to add $# back, should we add back $* as well?
>
> =item $*
>
> C<$*> used to be a variable that enabled multiline matching.
> After a deprecated cycle, its magic was removed in 5.10.
> Using it now triggers a severe warning: C<$* is no longer
> supported>.  Use the C</s> and C</m> regexp modifiers
> instead.
>
> Also see L<perlre>.
>
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