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The meaning of this (lemmy.world)

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[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 2 points 1 day ago

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 versus this in OO contexts in Javascript, but, at least to me, that feels pretty tenuous.