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From: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Special Variable $^T not documented in manual
Message-ID: <11209@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Date: 28 Jan 91 22:34:38 GMT
References: <1991Jan25.200918.11912@tc.fluke.COM> <1991Jan26.191204.13430@pronto.mh.nl>
Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
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In article <1991Jan26.191204.13430@pronto.mh.nl> Johan Vromans <jv@mh.nl> writes:
: > $^T ($ control-T), which is:
: 
: It is (dollar-caret-T, not dollar control-T).

Guess again.  Either way works.  If you go back to Perl version 1, you'll
see the hooks for using control characters as special variables.

Of course, anyone in their right mind will use the caret notation.

: This is actually a Perl 4.0 feature that happens to be already
: implemented in 3.044...

That part is right.  Though I usually try to document features as they're
added.

Larry