From: Mike Campbell <michael_s_campbell@...>
Date: 2002-04-15T02:46:48+09:00
Subject: RE: Silence warning

> > ARGV is a global variable that is prepopulated for you with the
> > command line arguments...  why would you want to change the contents
> > of that variable?  I personally treat ARGV as a readonly
> > variable... and now that I think about it, it'd be really cool if a
> > security level of 1 or greater made that read only.  ::hint hint:: :~)
>
> Hmm. I commonly extract arguments from ARGV using ARGV.shift.
> Maybe I should consider this 'bad' practice and change my ways.

Isn't [the thought of being able to modify] ARGV counter to the idea constants
begin with caps?  or have I missed something obvious?