How is TT being invoked?

I could override the method that invokes the template for me (I'm using CGI::Prototype) but I'd rather not.

why not try and pre-populate a hash instead of using symbolic references?

That's actually what I'm doing... to start at least. There is already a large data structure being passed into the template. I'm adding an extra key to the data structure with all of the additional variables I need as keys. Then in the template, I want to turn those into simple scalar variables. Something like this: 

$ds->{for_template}->{this_key} = 'foo';
$ds->{for_template}->{that_key} = 'bar';

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Where $ds is the data structure that is already being passed into the template. Then in the template (in perl for now): 

for my $var ( keys %{ $ds->{for_template} } ){
    ${eval $var} = $ds->{for_template}->{$var};
}

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Basically, I want to flatten the hash into individual variables that the template is expecting to be defined. 

perl -e 'split//,q{john hurl, pest caretaker}and(map{print @_[$_]}(joi
+n(q{},map{sprintf(qq{%010u},$_)}(2**2*307*4993,5*101*641*5261,7*59*79
+*36997,13*17*71*45131,3**2*67*89*167*181))=~/\d{2}/g));'

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In reply to Re^2: Dynamic variable naming in Template Toolkit by agianni
in thread Dynamic variable naming in Template Toolkit by agianni

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