Thank you one and all for your concise responses. I am sorry if I was a bit unclear and less than speedy in responding to the posts. I should have made my intentions clear; I don't have much experience with asking questions in a public forum like this one.

Essentially, I am creating a simple class, consisting of a constructor and an a method. The argument to the constructors sets the value of the datum, while the sub grants access to the datum.

I wanted to get around using explicit accessor and mutator methods and simply have a subroutine which, with a little syntactic sugar, could be used as a variable. I know, it sounds insane. Ne'ertheless, I shan't delve into my madness here.

My thinking, as unclear as it may seem, led me to believe a glob value could serve this dual purpose if one derefernced it properly: 

package datum;
our $value = undef;

sub new {
    my $class = shift;
    local $value = shift;

    return bless { datum => $value, glob => *value }, $class
}

sub value {
    my $self = shift;
    
    return $self{glob}
}

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This "wants" to have the effect of returning an alias for the datum when used in a manner similar to the following: 

use datum;

my $d = datum->new(42);
*d =  $d->value();

# What I want to be able to here is something like:
# $d = ...; $d->{foo} = ...; push @d, ...

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Perhaps, this makes things a little more clear. Thank you in advance.

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In reply to Re: Returning and using a glob from a sub. by mephtu
in thread Returning and using a glob from a sub. by mephtu

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