>   Another piece of the puzzle is that putting curly
>   braces around anything that looks like a variable
>   causes Perl to interpolate the value of that
>   variable. Doing: 
>   
>   $main::{$test} = "skot2";
>   
>   first causes interpolation -- so that the
>   interpreter now has:
>   
>   $main::scott = "skot2";