3 English - use nice English (or awk) names for ugly punctuation variables
9 if ($ERRNO =~ /denied/) { ... }
13 This module provides aliases for the built-in variables whose
14 names no one seems to like to read. Variables with side-effects
15 which get triggered just by accessing them (like $0) will still
18 For those variables that have an B<awk> version, both long
19 and short English alternatives are provided. For example,
20 the C<$/> variable can be referred to either $RS or
21 $INPUT_RECORD_SEPARATOR if you are using the English module.
23 See L<perlvar> for a complete list of these.