As someone that has spend significant time in Perl5, why would they use something like `$=pod`? I get that the name starts with &#x27;=&#x27; just like the pod syntax, but that doesn&#x27;t mean it <i>needs</i> to be in the variable name. I would almost just rather that they have some sort of namespace just for &#x27;special&#x27; variables like Python with their &#x27;dunder&#x27; variables (i.e. double-underscore like __doc__).