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

Perl's symbol table is just a hash
Indeed. A hash of hashes, in a way: 
use warnings;
use strict;
sub T { 42 }
our $T = 24;
*T = *STDOUT{IO};
print { *T{IO} } ${*T{SCALAR}}, ' ', *T{CODE}->(), "\n";

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Re^4: Why does Perl have typeglobs?
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jul 08, 2014 at 21:13 UTC
    Not a hash of hashes, a hash of globs. Not only is the syntax different, so is the implementation. A glob is a struct, not a hash table.
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