From perldoc perlop: 
If what's within the angle brackets is neither a filehandle
nor a simple scalar variable containing a filehandle name,
typeglob, or typeglob reference, it is interpreted as a
filename pattern to be globbed, and either a list of
filenames or the next filename in the list is returned,
depending on context. This distinction is determined on
syntactic grounds alone. That means <$x> is always a
readline() from an indirect handle, but <$hash{key}> is
always a glob(). That's because $x is a simple scalar
variable, but $hash{key} is not--it's a hash element.

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You can try the readline function rather than the <> operator. It is not clear to me whether you get all the default behaviors when using readline.
We're not really tightening our belts, it just feels that way because we're getting fatter.

In reply to Re: Indirect Referencing by Roy Johnson
in thread Indirect Referencing by periapt

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