But you shouldn't do that unless your TheDamian. ;-)

Why not? It's often the only way to get to those variables. In scriptinfo.pl, an Irssi script, I use symbolic references all the time, and I know of no other way to do this. Symbolic references are to be avoided, but you can't always.

    my $name    = ${ "Irssi::Script::${data}::IRSSI" }{name};
    my $url     = ${ "Irssi::Script::${data}::IRSSI" }{url};
    my $version = ${ "Irssi::Script::${data}::VERSION" };
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