This is probably accurate. I personally use this subset all of the time (for reasons that will be obvious to Perl programmers): $_, @_, $@, $!, $? I have occa

This is probably accurate. I personally use this subset all of the time (for reasons that will be obvious to Perl programmers): $_, @_, $@, $!, $? I have occasion to use $$, but not too often. I tend not to use much else, and like others have said in this thread, I just look up things that I need when I need them. If it is not obvious what something does (especially if it is one of these special variables), I will add a comment to explain (as I would in any programming language I use). I understand why people don't like this particular characteristic of Perl, and it is a legitimate thing to have differing tastes. But I don't personally find it to be anywhere near as "end of the world" awful as many people who can't stand Perl make it out to be.