May I infer from the fact that typeglobs are going away that we will no longer be able to use in our code such lovely global variables as @31415, %42, the filehandle */, etc? I assume that the availability of such was merely an unintended side-effect of the special like-named scalars and the conflation of names in typeglobs, though I find it odd that nobody ever made a special case to disallow them in Perl5. Of course, most global magic variables are going away, anyway, but I think $n for regexes is remaining, right? -- Mark J. REED <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>