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Says tilly:
> There is a small list of "special" symbols which are
> always in package main by default no matter what package you are in.
> *_ is one.
I thought that might be a useful thing to have, so I put a patch into 5.6.0 to add lots of those variables. So now if you want to have a variable that is always in package main for some reason, you can call it ${^_Ben_Tillys_Variable}, and no matter what package you are in, you always get the same thing.
It's documented at the very end of perlvar, as is the stuff Ben was discussing.
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