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From: composer@chem.bu.edu (Jeff Kellem)
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Subject: Re: Perlscript as login-shell
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Date: 18 Feb 91 05:03:18 GMT
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In-reply-to: allbery@NCoast.ORG's message of 17 Feb 91 17:13:03 GMT

In article <1991Feb17.171303.20400@NCoast.ORG> allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR) writes:
 > I've been thinking about the $^x business, Larry.  How about changing the
 > special variables to be normally-named variables in package Perl?  That way,
 > the debug flags, for example, might be $Perl'debug_flags instead of $^D.
 > It's more readable --- and, much more importantly, you won't run out of
 > variables.

But, for those that are lazy, it's easier to type $^x.  ;-}

			-jeff

Jeff Kellem
Internet: composer@chem.bu.edu