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On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 03:25:31PM +0100, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote:
: * Peter Scott <Peter@PSDT.com> [2007-12-28 15:15]:
: > I see 'refs' as mostly useful for slapping the hand of someone
: > who thinks they need to use the contents of one variable as the
: > name of another.
:
: I don’t: there are plenty of legitimate uses for that. Whenever I
: muck around in the symbol table I wish there was an easier way to
: signal my intent to Perl than `no strict 'refs'`.
Will another layer of abstraction help?
$ perl -MAlias -wle 'alias foo => sub { 42 }; print foo()'
42
Alias is so simple and been around for so long... and so universally ignored. :(
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as explicit as Japanese eel porn.
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