Larry Wall Quotes on Naming
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Just don't create a file called -rf. :-)
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... an initial underscore already conveys strong feelings of magicalness to a C programmer.
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You tell it that it's indicative by appending $!. That's why we made $! such a short variable name, after all. :-)
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People who understand context would be steamed to have someone else dictating how they can call it.