punctuation(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation punctuation(3) NAME punctuation - Forbid uses of punctuation variables SYNOPSIS no punctuation; no punctuation 'anon'; DESCRIPTION Use of the "no punctuation" pragma in a package forbids all uses of punctuation variables such as "$"", "$!", "$^O", and so on in named subroutines defined in that package. "no punctuation 'anon'" forbids the use of punctuation variables in all anonymous subroutines in the program. "use punctuation" does nothing. EXPORT None by default. AUTHOR Mark Jason Dominus, "mjd-perl-nopunct+@plover.com" PREREQUISITE Requires "B::Utils". However, the version of "B::Utils" available on CPAN at this time of this writing (version 0.02) has many bugs. You may obtain a corrected copy of 0.02 from "http://perl.plover.com/punctuation/" . TODO Probably none of it works the way you wish it would, but as they say: If a thing's not worth doing at all, it's not worth doing well. SEE ALSO the B::Utils manpage 2002-02-07 perl v5.6.1 1