$spud = "Wow";
@spud = ("idaho", "russet");
*potato = *spud;   # Alias potato to spud using typeglob assignment

print "$potato\n"; # prints "Wow!"
print "@potato\n"; # doesn't work!!!!!

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In string, @potato now must be written as \@potato at - line 5, near "@potato" Any ideas why this doesn't work? Once the typeglob assignement is made, all entities that were called "spud" should also be referred to as "potato"-the names should be freely interchangeable. This example (below) is taken right out of the leopard book (O'Reilly, Advanced Perl Programming, p.42)

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