On Wednesday 19 February 2003 08:16, Paul wrote: > > Er? Sorry, I don't mean for this to sound as bad as it does, but.... > have you read the docs that *come* with Perl????
i will let you take a guess. > > Perhaps a mistaken assumption. Could someone delineate the difference > between package variable value and the symbol table? I thought the > symbol table was also use to store the actual values.... > yes but probably not the value that you expect. for example: [xx@panda] perl -e '$yy=1; print "$_\n" for(keys %::)' | grep yy yy [xx@panda] perl -e '$yy=1; print "$_\n" for(values %::)' | grep yy *main::yy > > Mistermed, then. I'm ignorant here, and trying to cure that. Point me > to the stack docs? > sure. checkout perl hack at: http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.8.0/pod/perlhack.html#Stacks you should read argument stack, mark stack and the save stack. in particular, you don't want to miss save stack since it tells you how Perl inplements 'local $x' via the save stack. i will answer (or i will try to) your other questions offline. david -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
