Re^2: Dereferencing a reference to a typeglob? [Postfix Dereference Syntax]

++, but this doesn't solve the OP's problem of derefing a lexical, it acts the same way as a normal deref does (unless I'm missing something):

perl -E 'my $a=25; my $x=\*a; say $x->**; say $$x;'
*main::a
*main::a
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Re^3: Dereferencing a reference to a typeglob? [Postfix Dereference Syntax] by LanX (Saint) on Oct 29, 2016 at 15:08 UTC
> `perl -E 'my $a=25; my $x=\a; ... '`* This code doesn't do what you think it does. `a` is always addressing the typeglob of the global symbol(s) named `a` , i.e. `&a, $a, @a, %a` the filehandle `a` and the format `a` . ( see here for how to use the clearer `{SLOT}` syntax.) Maybe this code example makes it clearer: `DB<104> $a=42; my $a=666; my $ra=\a; print $$$ra 42` [download] update Best think of the STASH (= Symbol Table Hash) as a Hash of Hashes, where the second level "hash" is a special structure called "glob" which always has exactly 6 fixed entries, which are either `undef` or a reference. Lexicals use a totally different mechanism in the so called "Pad" and can't be addressed with `*` because there is nothing like a "lexical glob" unifying all lexical symbols. If you use PadWalker to introspect pads you'll see that `$x', '%x', '@x` listed as separate top level symbols. Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language and ☆☆☆☆ :) Je suis Charlie!}	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: Dereferencing a reference to a typeglob? [Postfix Dereference Syntax] by kcott (Archbishop) on Oct 30, 2016 at 01:05 UTC
See my "Postfix Dereference Chaining" solution. — Ken	[reply]