Yes, I know. There's More Than One Way To Do It, and I'm MORE curious about the underlying question of why THIS way happens to fail.

I think you will have to UTSL to know why .... basically you're looking too close at it :)

http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/blob?f=t/lib/strict/vars
http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git?a=search&h=HEAD&st=grep&s=^H
http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/blob?f=gv.c#l1623
http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/blob?f=cop.h#l391
http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/blob?f=gv.c#l1954
http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git?a=search&h=HEAD&st=grep&s=hints
http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/blob?f=gv.c#l1578
http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git?a=search&h=HEAD&st=grep&s=STRICT_VARS

In reply to Re: Creating "Lexical" Symbol Table Aliases (a la "use vars") From The Same Package by Anonymous Monk
in thread Creating "Lexical" Symbol Table Aliases (a la "use vars") From The Same Package by OneTrueDabe

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