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authormarkm <markm@FreeBSD.org>1999-05-02 14:33:17 +0000
committermarkm <markm@FreeBSD.org>1999-05-02 14:33:17 +0000
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Maintenance releace 3 of perl5.005. Includes support for threads.
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@@ -15,6 +15,14 @@ English - use nice English (or awk) names for ugly punctuation variables
=head1 DESCRIPTION
+You should I<not> use this module in programs intended to be portable
+among Perl versions, programs that must perform regular expression
+matching operations efficiently, or libraries intended for use with
+such programs. In a sense, this module is deprecated. The reasons
+for this have to do with implementation details of the Perl
+interpreter which are too thorny to go into here. Perhaps someday
+they will be fixed to make "C<use English>" more practical.
+
This module provides aliases for the built-in variables whose
names no one seems to like to read. Variables with side-effects
which get triggered just by accessing them (like $0) will still
@@ -160,6 +168,7 @@ sub import {
*PERL_VERSION = *] ;
*ACCUMULATOR = *^A ;
+ *COMPILING = *^C ;
*DEBUGGING = *^D ;
*SYSTEM_FD_MAX = *^F ;
*INPLACE_EDIT = *^I ;
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