RE: Typeglobs, filehandles, asterisks

[Dan Sugalski]

At 01:11 PM 8/2/00 +0100, Nick Ing-Simmons wrote:
>What _should_ symbol table access look like to the perl programmer?

I'd snag a pair of special variables, SYMBOL and LEXICAL. Accessed either 
$LEXICAL{var_name}[scope_level]{THING} or 
$LEXICAL[scope_level]{var_name}{THING}, and use the *foo{THING} syntax to 
get a reference to whatever's in the slot.

                                        Dan

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