use strict; use Socket; my $proto = getprotobyname('tcp'); socket(SOCKET, PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, $proto) or die "Can't open socket: $!\n"; #### perl -e 'print "How sweet does a rose smell? "; chomp $n = ; $rose = "smells sweet to degree $n"; *other_name = *rose; print "$other_name\n"'