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On Wed, 12 May 2004 19:47:58 +0900 (JST)
Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org> wrote:

> I prefer a shorter convention something like @NAME or $NAME.

The probability of a collision with current docstrings is much higher.
$NAME could happen easily in shell-related modules, and both in
perl-related ones.

                                                                Juanma