Sorry diotalevi, I'm sure you know what your getting at, but it's going right over my head.

I don't see how Lexical::Alias has anything to do with what Japhy and I were discussing, and as Japhy wrote Lexical::Alias I would have thought that he would have recognised the correspondance if there was one.

The last thing I need for my purposes is the creation of yet more perl internal structures and hash entries (pad entries) pointing to things that I don't have a first name for and couldn't use a second name for, even if they didn't involve using more space--which is exactly what I'm trying to avoid.

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In reply to Re^14: Techniques On Saving Memory by BrowserUk
in thread Techniques On Saving Memory by Limbic~Region

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