Re: Trying to understand aliasing (*var)

It's called a typeglob. To get your example to work you will need a use vars qw($z) or specify the full package of the variable:

use strict;
my $x=2;
*main::z=\$x;
print $main::z;
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Not that this will not work with a lexical $z declared with my as it has to be a package variable.

/J\

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Re^2: Trying to understand aliasing (*var) by blazar (Canon) on Feb 11, 2005 at 12:47 UTC
It's called a typeglob. To get your example to work you will need a `use vars qw($z)` or specify the full package of the variable: or use `our $z`.	[reply] [d/l] [select]