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2021-10-30 8:47 Dan Book <grinnz@gmail.com> wrote:
> Currently, each punctuation variable has an $ENGLISH_NAME alias available
> for readability. But this has a couple problems: it's only available if you
> "use English;" which does not provide a direct indication of the variables
> it's related to in the code, and was a significant performance penalty in
> older versions of Perl; these issues leading to not much use of the module
> and thus the knowledge of their existence has not become widespread; so
> average Perl programmers finding $CHILD_ERROR in Perl code are likely not
> to know it's an alias for $? or that it's a built-in variable at all, thus
> reducing its effective readability instead of increasing it.
>
>
One of the most common criticisms of Perl is its low readability.
Although this is partly a hype, I feel it's true that punctuation variables
aren't readable as they are.
Although ${^FOO} is a little peculiar, the word can be searched by
searching engines such as Google, Bing, and I realize it is a special
variable.
I agree with this proposal.
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