Re: RFC 30 (v3) STDIN, STDOUT, and STDERR should be renamed

[Nathan Wiger]

Jonathan Scott Duff wrote:
>
> Everytime I see this I think that Perl should have it's own namespace
> for special variables.
> 
>         print $PERL::STDERR "Oops!\n";

Check out RFC 17, it deals with this issue somewhat.

The two suggestions I like that I've heard are the one you mention and
$PERL{VARIABLE}, because then you can get all the current settings by
iterating through %PERL. Just plain $^{VARIABLE} or $*{VARIABLE} so that
%^ or %* was all the Perl stuff would work for me too.

-Nate