I have a huge array that I wish to transport to another namespace without copying it.

I could simply set @OtherNamespace::Ar = @HA, but that makes a copy and I'd prefer that if Ar gets modified that HA would get modified also. I know you can issue a *ON::Ar = *HA to link them together, but my problem is that my huge array is really an array-ref in a big hash structure...

Is there a way to link $HugeArrayRef to @ON::Ar like with the glob you can use for arrays?

UPDATE: Just use a ref to your huge data structure. Pretend I don't have access to the OtherNameSpace, but still need to set that array to call a function there. I'm trying to avoid this: 

@ON::Ar = @{$myvar->{ar}};
$blessed->function;
@{$myvar->{ar}} = @ON:Ar;

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UPDATE2: I'm embarrassed that *ON::Ar = $myvar->{ar}; is apparently what I wanted. It's always something simple when you spend a long time on it. Data::Alias and Data::Bind are interesting though, so it's not a total loss. Thanks.

-Paul

In reply to namespace hacking with globs by jettero

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