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Re^5: Where to find info on low level perl internals names?
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Oct 26, 2011 at 07:06 UTC
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I figured "glob" actually meant "glob".
As in glob. I think not.
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No, as in amorphous lump, since it's an collection of practically every data type.
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Re^5: (Game, set, and match!)
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Oct 27, 2011 at 04:23 UTC
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=head1 GV Functions
A GV is a structure which corresponds to to a Perl typeglob, ie *foo.
It is a structure that holds a pointer to a scalar, an array, a hash etc,
corresponding to $foo, @foo, %foo.
GVs are usually found as values in stashes (symbol table hashes) where
Perl stores its global variables.
=cut
Game, set, and match!
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"Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority".
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Storing package (global) variables is one of their uses, yes. How does repeating what I said add anything to the conversation?
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How does repeating what I said add anything to the conversation?
What you said? Your memory is deluding you again.
In case you hadn't noticed, it is a quote from an authoritative source.
Until you persuade Mr. Wall to speak up and state that he named his nice, regular, clearly defined data structure after an archaic term for "an amorphous mass", I'll continue to believe the evidence that you had no clue what 'glob' stood for, or even that such an (archaic) word even existed until I challenged you to define it.
At which point you looked it up on the internet, found a definition for a word that in no way describes the entity, and ... well, the rest is history.
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