Hello fellow inmates, er.. monks. Today, I am intrigued by the following seemingly innocuous bit of code: 
no strict 'refs';
$y = 'bob';
$x = '$y';
$$x = 'wierd';

print $$x;    # prints 'wierd' ($$x has a value)
print ' - ';  # print a little seperator
print $bob;   # prints nothing ($bob is still undefined)

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I set $x to '$y' instead of 'y' (which is how one would normally reference $y through $$x). $bob is left undefined, so we can deduce that the $$x isn't dereferenced twice. I've traversed the %:: main package symbol table, and it's not in there, either. Where, then, is $$x stored, and how is it dereferenced?

Very mysterious...

In reply to Enigmatic Symbolic References by MeowChow

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