If that is what he means, I agree with your analysis - my solution does not update nor was it intended to.

I took my interpretation from the example he gave where it seemed to me that what he wanted was an easy way to assign a set of regularly named variables into hash keys based on the variable naming conventions. I assumed that the "$alpha_state" value was essentially a constant because that is how the OP presented it - the inherited code assigned it a value. This is a pattern I've seen before - read in data from a CGI stream, populate some variables and never change them, then read the variables later on to either re-present the data or use it as input to some calculation. I just recently analyzed such code in a post Re: This runs WAY too slow.

Even though an alias would be more powerful than my solution (being read/write), I don't like creating such alaises unless it is really, really necessary. It makes the program that much harder to maintain and adds to the documentation burden.

But only the OP actually knows what he wants, so maybe he/she will tell us?

In reply to Re^3: Mandatory Symbolic References? by ELISHEVA
in thread Mandatory Symbolic References? by bfreemer

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