I did try that and it does not work, at least not on my 5.10.1

  DB<2> $s = Symbol::gensym

  DB<3> x ${*$s}{goo} = 'ber'
0  'ber'
*  DB<4> x \%{*$s}{goo}
syntax error at (eval 8)[/usr/share/perl/5.10/perl5db.pl:638] line 2, 
+near "}{goo"
*  DB<5> x \%{*$s}
0  HASH(0x86285e8)
   'goo' => 'ber'
*  DB<6> x \%{*Symbol::GEN0}
0  HASH(0x87144e0)
     empty hash
*  DB<7> x ${*Symbol::GEN0}{goo}
0  undef
  DB<8> x $]
0  5.010001
  DB<9> x $s
0  GLOB(0x86285b8)
   -> *Symbol::GEN0

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...

*  DB<8> x \%{*Symbol::GEN0}
0  HASH(0x8aab260)
     empty hash
*  DB<9> x \%{*{Symbol::GEN0}}
0  HASH(0x8aab260)
     empty hash
*  DB<10> x \%{*{*Symbol::GEN0}}
0  HASH(0x8aab260)
     empty hash
*  DB<11> x \%{'' . *$s}
0  HASH(0x8aab260)
     empty hash
*  DB<12> x \%{*$s}
0  HASH(0x8a5b5e8)
   'goo' => 'ber'
*  DB<13> use Scalar::Util qw(refaddr)

  DB<14> x \%{*refaddr($s)}
syntax error at (eval 20)[/usr/share/perl/5.10/perl5db.pl:638] line 2,
+ near "*refaddr("
*  DB<15> x \%{refaddr($s)}
0  HASH(0x8b6eea0)
     empty hash
*  DB<16> x \%{sprintf "%x", refaddr($s)}
0  HASH(0x8b73ef0)
     empty hash
*  DB<17> x \%{*{"$s"}}
0  HASH(0x8b73c10)
     empty hash

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It does not show up when I dump \%:: (or \%Symbol or \%Symbol:: or \%Symbol::GEN0 or \%Symbol::GEN0:: either (excluded for brevity) at least not that i can see.

In reply to Re^4: symbol/glob hash explanation by rwstauner
in thread symbol/glob hash explanation by rwstauner

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