Re: Typeglobs, filehandles, asterisks

[Dan Sugalski]

At 05:19 PM 8/1/00 -0600, Tom Christiansen wrote:
> >Typeglobs != symbol tables.
>
> >You can access individual variable bits in the symbol table now without
> >using typeglobs. I don't see why that would have to change.
>
>NB:  $main::{fred} does not autoviv a typeglob when used lvaluably,
>but *main::fred does.

Well, in perl 5 it doesn't, but that doesn't say anything about perl 6... :)


                                        Dan

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