Re^2: Ugly ways to declare global variables?

More simply, since we don't need to pass names around as strings:

use strict;
use warnings;
BEGIN { package vars; *::x = \$::x }
$x = 5;
print $x;
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Re^3: Ugly ways to declare global variables? by itub (Priest) on Apr 25, 2005 at 20:15 UTC
Thanks, good point. What happened was that I based my example too literaly in the vars.pm code, where the variable names are indeed passed around as strings.	[reply]

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