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From: gpvos@cs.vu.nl (Gerben 'P' Vos)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: using contents of a scalar variable as a variable name
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Date: 15 Apr 91 20:00:03 GMT
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lwall@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov (Larry Wall) writes:

>                                                   NAME also loses any
>magical significance: *ENV = 'foo' would turn %ENV into a normal array,
>I believe.  (Although it's still forced to be a global variable by the
>symbol table routines.)

Also bindings with dbm files?
That * stuff sounds awful.

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