I do want to point out that I believe merlyn did not read this article, as I also discourage the use of softrefs. As a result, to assist some of the skim-readers on this site, I have gone back and bolded the appropriate statement.
Correct. I read your first statement that says:
Instead of saying $fmail$cnt try saying ${"fmail$cnt"}. This uses references, but not the kind that involves an address of memory. Instead you're referring to a variable by name.
That uses softreferences. That's what I was downvoting you for. The fact that your statement had to be bolded later proves that it wasn't strong enough when I first skimmed it.

Had you instead written as your first paragraph:

There will be other posts in this thread that show you how to do this with soft references. Please ignore them. They are bad.
You would have gotten an upvote instead of a downvote.

Just something to note for the future. Do not suggest a broken solution, even if you "fix it" later in the same message.

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker
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update:
merlyn says PLEASE do not suggest to people to use softrefs! I downvoted your node for that.
By the way, that was a private message to you, not a node. The fact that you took private communication and made it public is both (a) rude and (b) a copyright violation. Please don't do that again, and I won't have charges filed against you this time. {grin}

In reply to Re^2: $var$cnt problems by merlyn
in thread $var$cnt problems by Anonymous Monk

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