Symobolic refs are there because Perl needs them for certain things to work.
The main reason symbolic refs are in Perl is that before perl5, symbolic refs were the only refs you had.
For instance, class/object method calls are always done symbolically (even under strict 'refs').
Bullshit. There are no references to subs involved in finding methods when it comes to class or object method calling. Walking the @ISA tree has nothing to do with references.

Perhaps you are confused about exporting subs (which is typically not done by OO classes). But then you are wrong again. Most exporting is done via the Export module, which uses neither 'strict' nor 'warnings'.

Abigail

In reply to Re: variables names used to define variables by Abigail-II
in thread variables names used to define variables by Sandy

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