But I did $var = *x

So did I. I said \*x also works.

it's not obvious that $val needs dereferencing.

I showed that it doesn't need dereferencing. 

$gv = *x; @$gv  =>  @x

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Of course, one needs to use the sigil to access the components of the glob. 

$gv = *x;
$gv{ARRAY}    # Obviously wrong.
*$gv{ARRAY}   # Ok

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...and not this:

Do you really want print($count + 2) to use $count as a file handle? 

print(STDOUT + 2)   =>  print( { STDOUT } 2 )

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Barewords will be handled as expected, but anything else followed by what could be an infix operator will be treated as an argument to that operator. 

print(*STDOUT + 2)  =>  print( { select() } *STDOUT+2 )
print(*$x + 2)      =>  print( { select() } *$x+2 )
print($x + 2)       =>  print( { select() } $x+2 )

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In reply to Re^3: typeglob: $var = *x ??? by ikegami
in thread typeglob: $var = *x ??? by 7stud

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