In my humble opinion, references in Perl 5 made superfluous the usage of typeglobs for almost everyday task (for a sensible concept of everyday task :-)

Of course, I am not saying typeglobs are unuseful or typeglobs are dead, I'd like to make it clear.

i am just not familiar enough with perl to know what is really going on behind the scenes

About that, you may want to read the chapter about typeglobs & C. in the O'Reilly book Advanced Perl Programming (the one with the black panther on the cover). Even if I don't like to know the details of the internals, I succeded in reading about typeglobs without getting asleep. The author may consider it a great success :-)

Anyway, I would like to award with the "bronto's best typeglobs use prize" Mr.Damian Conway with the *{$AUTOLOAD} = sub { ... } trick I found in his book, "Object Oriented Perl". Now Mr.Conway has the only prize he didn't get before!

Yes, I'm kidding!!!

Ciao!
--bronto

# Another Perl edition of a song:
# The End, by The Beatles
END {
  $you->take($love) eq $you->made($love) ;
}