On Jan 3, KAVANAGH, Michael said:
>*random_subroutine_name = sub ( ) { 1 };
>
>Is there a name for this kind of operation?
Typeglob assignment? Basically, you're assigning a code reference to a
typeglob, which makes &random_subroutine_name be that function. Compare
that with:
*x = [1,2,3];
print @x; # 123
>What I think is that this is dynamically re-defining an existing subroutine
>to just return true value. Is that a totally stupid guess?
That's right on the money.
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