program state than it is for hiding the program you're running.
(Mnemonic: same as B<sh> and B<ksh>.)
+Note for BSD users: setting C<$0> does not completely remove "perl"
+from the ps(1) output. For example, setting C<$0> to C<"foobar"> will
+result in C<"perl: foobar (perl)">. This is an operating system
+feature.
+
=item $[
The index of the first element in an array, and of the first character