I am definitively with you on the point of using so many globals. I would never consider to do something like this on many global variables just because of efficiency concerns. A design that needs such hacks is probably flawed.

OTOH, I found this to be an interesting problem with respect to tie() usage.

As for your suggestion - thanks! This really works. Funny. You can even use the code like it stands. Just pass in a ref to the lexical, and you're done. Like this: 

my $baz3;
tie($baz3, "MyGlobals", "LegacyRoutines::baz", \$baz3); 

print $baz3, "\n";
print $baz3, "\n";

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In reply to Re: You can hack anything... by clemburg
in thread Using tie to initialize large datastructures by htoug

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