while pseudocoding something I realized that it would be really cool if there was another magical default shelf, like $_ or _ but subtly different, that stores, if lexically used, the object of the most recent "defined" or "exists" -- or maybe even the most recently referred to scalar, just the way "it" works in English. "it" would change much more often than $_ does. -- David Nicol 816.235.1187 dnicol@cstp.umkc.edu # die smiling;Thread Next