Re^2: How do I determine if a variable contains a type glob?

A variable never contains a type glob. It either is a typeglob by itself

Not so. Scalars can contain globs.

my $fh = *STDOUT;
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Globs can also also contain other globs. (The slot is named GLOB.) That's how subpackages are stored.

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Re^3: How do I determine if a variable contains a type glob? by shmem (Chancellor) on Dec 06, 2016 at 22:41 UTC
Indeed; thank you. Haddocks' Eyes, again. `my $f = STDOUT; $STDOUT{foo} = 'bar'; print {$f}{HASH}{foo},"\n"; print ${$f}{foo},"\n"; __END__ bar bar` [download] ...resiling to my hermitage for a revision course of perl data. perl -le'print map{pack c,($-++?1:13)+ord}split//,ESEL'	[reply] [d/l]