NAME

English::Name - ${^ENGLISH_NAME} for magic variables

VERSION

version 0.003

SYNOPSIS

use English::Name;

if (${^ERRNO} =~ /denied/) { ... }

DESCRIPTION

This module provides aliases for the built-in variables whose names no one seems to like to read much like the `English` module does and is described in perlvar. However instead of using $LONG_NAME, it uses ${^LONG_NAME}, making it more obvious that these are in fact magical variables. As caret variables are super-global, this module has a global effect.

ALIASES

This module defines the following aliases:

• ${^ARG} => $_

• ${^LIST_SEPARATOR} => $\

• ${^PID} => $$

• ${^PROCESS_ID} => $$

• ${^PROGRAM_NAME} => $0

• ${^REAL_GROUP_ID} => $(

• ${^GID} => $(

• ${^EFFECTIVE_GROUP_ID} => $)

• ${^EGID} => $)

• ${^REAL_USER_ID} => $<

• ${^UID} => $<

• ${^EFFECTIVE_USER_ID} => $>

• ${^EUID} => $>

• ${^SUBSCRIPT_SEPARATOR} => $;

• ${^SUBSEP} => $;

• ${^OLD_PERL_VERSION} => $]

• ${^SYSTEM_FD_MAX} => $^F

• ${^INPLACE_EDIT} => $^I

• ${^OSNAME} => $^O

• ${^PERL_VERSION} => $^V

• ${^EXECUTABLE_NAME} => $^X

• ${^PERLDB} => $^P

• ${^LAST_PAREN_MATCH} => $+

• ${^LAST_SUBMATCH_RESULT} => $^N

• ${^LAST_MATCH_END} => $+

• ${^LAST_MATCH_START} => $-

• ${^LAST_REGEXP_CODE_RESULT} => $^R

• ${^INPUT_LINE_NUMBER} => $.

• ${^INPUT_RECORD_SEPARATOR} => $/

• ${^RS} => $/

• ${^NR} => $.

• ${^OUTPUT_FIELD_SEPARATOR} => $,

• ${^OFS} => $,

• ${^OUTPUT_RECORD_SEPARATOR} => $\

• ${^ORS} => $\

• ${^OUTPUT_AUTOFLUSH} => $|

• ${^OS_ERROR} => $!

• ${^ERRNO} => $!

• ${^EXTENDED_OS_ERROR} => $^E

• ${^EXCEPTIONS_BEING_CAUGHT} => $^S

• ${^WARNING} => $^W

• ${^EVAL_ERROR} => $@

• ${^CHILD_ERROR} => $?

• ${^COMPILING} => $^C

• ${^DEBUGGING} => $^D

AUTHOR

Leon Timmermans <leont@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2022 by Leon Timmermans.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.