Hi,

I played a little bit with the vars listed in perlvar, and there are some inconsistent behaviours (using v5.10.0). Before filling a bug report, I would like to discuss these issues:

% perl -e '$$=1'
Modification of a read-only value attempted at -e line 1.

% perl -e 'local $$=1'

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$$ is listed as read-only.

Same is for other special globals like $], $^{TAINT}, $^{UNICODE}, and $^V.

Is there a bug? Are the docs ambiguous?

-- Frank