Re: RFC 243 (v1) No special UPPERCASE_NAME subroutines

[Ilya Zakharevich]

On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 04:22:31PM -0700, Nathan Wiger wrote:
> > What ALLCAPS variables?
> 
> Well, @ARGV comes to mind.

I see, and @INC, %INC, %ENV, %SIG.

> Maybe we should provide a special namespace for these as well,
> besides main::?

This is a nice possible solution.  There may be many others as well...

On the other hand, there are only 5 names, not hundreds of them, and
they do not "get in the way", as ADD would do (prohibiting a method
named ADD).  So letting them be may be also a solution...

Ilya