[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > +Placeholder names may only be lowercase, not because we're mean, but > +because it helps us catch references to obsolete Perl 5 variables such as > $^O.
That seems unnecessarily restrictive. How about "may not consist solely of uppercase letters" instead? That would still permit things like $^Item, or caseless letters (Han characters, Japanese kana, Hangul, Devanagari, Thai, Hebrew, Arabic, etc). Maybe even "may not consist solely of uppercase Latin-script letters"; that would permit uppercase Greek and Cyrillic and so on. -- Aaron Crane