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English(3)
NAME
  English - use nice English (or awk) names for ugly punctuation 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
  module.

  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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