Re: Symbolic references and twigils

2006-01-21 Thread Larry Wall
On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 10:37:40AM -0700, Joshua Choi wrote: : Supposed I wanted to refer to $.head using a symbolic reference--how : would I do it? : : my $varname = 'head'; : #1 say $.::($varname); : #2 say $::('.' ~ $varname); : #3 something else I'd say #1 is easiest to grok, insofar

Symbolic references and twigils

2006-01-21 Thread Joshua Choi
Supposed I wanted to refer to $.head using a symbolic reference--how would I do it? my $varname = 'head'; #1 say $.::($varname); #2 say $::('.' ~ $varname); #3 something else