NAME
English - use nice English (or awk) names for ugly punctuation variables
SYNOPSIS
use English;
use English qw( -no_match_vars ) ; # Avoids regex performance
# penalty in perl 5.16 and
# earlier
...
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.