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@@ -6,53 +6,131 @@ perlvar - Perl predefined variables
=head2 Predefined Names
-The following names have special meaning to Perl. Most of the
-punctuational names have reasonable mnemonics, or analogues in one of
-the shells. Nevertheless, if you wish to use the long variable names,
-you just need to say
+The following names have special meaning to Perl. Most
+punctuation names have reasonable mnemonics, or analogs in the
+shells. Nevertheless, if you wish to use long variable names,
+you need only say
use English;
-at the top of your program. This will alias all the short names to the
-long names in the current package. Some of them even have medium names,
-generally borrowed from B, and C when used
without an C<=~> operator.
-=item *
+=item *
The default iterator variable in a C