in reply to RE: package namespace manipulation
in thread package namespace manipulation

You're right, but that's why I'm dereferencing it to find out if there's a live SCALAR at the end. Your example doesn't actually match what's coded; try:
perl -wle 'print "Yep" if defined ${*{"NOSUCH"}{SCALAR}}'

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RE: package namespace manipulation
by Dominus (Parson) on Nov 15, 2000 at 00:34 UTC
    Oh, my mistake; thanks for the correction.

    It still seems to me that it would be simpler to write defined ${$fqvar} instead of defined ${*{$fqvar}{SCALAR}} however.