On Sep 25, Brett W. McCoy said:
>As an example:
>
>symbolic reference
>
>my $var = 12;
>
>my $varref = "var"; #point to the variable named $var
Except that $$varref in this case will point to a package variable named
$var, and not the $var you've defined here -- symbolic references use the
symbol table, and my() variables are not stored there.
>a hard reference (or just reference, since usualyl when people say
>reference they mean hard reference):
>
>my $var = 12;
>my $varref = \$var; #point to the value in $var
Here, $$varref will access the $var you've defined, and return 12.
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