Says redcloud:
> Why is [${^_Ben_Tillys_Variable}] so much
> better than $main::Ben_Tillys_Variable?
That's a good question. It isn't that much better, but
that wasn't the main point of the patch. The reason for
the patch was that there are all these
$^T,
$^L,
$^V,
$^S variables already. They're all forced into
package main::, which is what you want, because
you don't want to have to say $main::^M everywhere.
And we were starting to run out of letters!
So I put the patch in so that the next time someone wants
to make up a new feature and use a new $^M variable,
they can call it ${^Emergency_Memory} instead.
It will be forced into package main:: just like
$^M is.
Since I was doing that anyway, I thought I might as well
reserve some of those variables for the user, just in case
they turned out to be useful for someone. If not, it's OK,
because it didn't cost anything.
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