On 11 Aug 2000, Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote:
> @ARGS is a better choice for several reasons:
>
> 1. It's closer to a word and so is faster to read [1]
>
> 2. It's easier to explain and remember "Your command-line
> args are contained in @ARGS"
>
> 3. When you say "$var = $ARGS[2]" it's easier to glance
> at and tell what you're getting quickly
>
> 4. It makes it more consistent with other word-like
> Perl vars like $VERSION.
>
> 5. There's no expectation that it works like or should
> be used like C's argv/argc
6. (arguable) This way, $ARGV (name of current file while
reading from <>) will not collid with @ARGS if sigils
were dropped (aka Highlander notation).
Cheers,
Philip
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