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From: schemers@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Roland Schemers III)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: package NAME;
Summary: why not package EXPR?
Message-ID: <7329@vela.acs.oakland.edu>
Date: 17 Jun 91 20:11:32 GMT
Organization: Oakland University, Rochester MI.
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Just wondering why you have to have a static name for a package instead
of having it be an expression. ie:

package foo;

instead of 

$bar="foo";
package $bar;

Roland
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