English pragma: legacy?

In the perl.xml file which controls the highlighting of my editor I found a pragma named english. In the docu I found only a build-in module named English, but no engli开发者_运维技巧sh pragma. Is the english entry an error or is this some sort of legacy?

Sounds like a typo on the part of the makers of your editor. The module is named English. If we look back at the earliest version of perl on CPAN, we can see that it was named English back then as well.

Either it's a typo, or your editor matches case-insensitively.

On case-insensitive file systems (e.g. NTFS on Windows), use english; will load the same file as use English;, but it won't load properly because Perl will look for &english::import instead of &English::import.