


English(3p)      Perl Programmers Reference Guide     English(3p)


NAME
       English - 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.





























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