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Re^3: Why does Perl have typeglobs?

by Anonymous Monk
on Jul 08, 2014 at 22:45 UTC ( [id://1092809]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re^2: Why does Perl have typeglobs?
in thread Why does Perl have typeglobs?

You can e.g. assign a typeglob to another: 

$foo = 42; @foo = ( 1, 2, 3 );
*bar = *foo;
print "$bar @bar";
undef *bar;
print "$bar @bar";

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Where and why that might come useful I cannot tell; however, it does make sense to keep a single struct, does it not?

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