This is one if the reasons that the Perl 6 project started (now known as the Raku Programming Language). Raku only has three of these special (lexical) variabl

This is one if the reasons that the Perl 6 project started (now known as the Raku Programming Language). Raku only has three of these special (lexical) variables left: $_ the topic $/ result of the last match $! the last exception caught An overview: https://docs.raku.org/language/5to6-perlvar https://docs.raku.org/language/5to6-perlvar