English(3) Perl Programmers Reference Guide English(3)NAMEEnglish - use nice English (or awk) names for ugly punctu
ation variables
SYNOPSIS
use English;
...
if ($ERRNO =~ /denied/) { ... }
DESCRIPTION
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 $0) will still be affected.
For those variables that have an awk version, both long
and short English alternatives are provided. For example,
the "$/" variable can be referred to either $RS or
$INPUT_RECORD_SEPARATOR if you are using the English mod
ule.
See the perlvar manpage for a complete list of these.
BUGS
This module provokes sizeable inefficiencies for regular
expressions, due to unfortunate implementation details.
If performance matters, consider avoiding English.
2001-02-22 perl v5.6.1 English(3)
