Oh wise monks of the symbol table,

I want to create a subroutine that alters a normal scalar into a tie'ed object, but without returning the object from the sub. This because I would like to use it as 'syntactic sugar' for a module interface. 
  # The idea is that when I do:
  use MyModule qw/my_sub/;
  my $scalar = 'something';

  # $scalar is normal here

  my_sub($scalar);
  # but now has become a tie'd scalar

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I figured i need to prototype the subroutine to implicitly get a reference to the var, so I declared it as sub my_sub (\$) {}. But now I wonder, whereto should I assign the tie'ed object, to the typeglob of the reference, to the typeglob of the scalar or just to the reference itself ?? And what is the right syntax to do this under use strict ?

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Jaap Karssenberg || Pardus (Larus)? <pardus@cpan.org>
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In reply to ref 'n typeglob by Pardus

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