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From:
Tom Christiansen
Date:
September 26, 2011 08:08
Subject:
Re: Reordering perlvar
Message ID:
21114.1317049675@chthon
> The biggest change is I made a new "interpreter state variables" section 
> that's near the end of the document. I put stuff like $COMPILING and 
> ${^ENCODING} here. My theory is that this is wizards-only stuff, so 
> keeping it separate makes the document more usable.

I rather don't like that you lose alphabetical ordering if you do that.
Someone sees a builtin variable used in a Perl program and they want to
look it up in the list of Perl variables.  Why should they have to know
which list to look in?

But I see this has already been done, so there's no hope for it.  Great.

--tom

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