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A.Bergman <sky@nanisky.com> wrote:
>
> On fredag, feb 21, 2003, at 00:05 Europe/Stockholm, Ronald J Kimball
> wrote:
>
> >
> > Lexical variables do not live in the symbol table, so they cannot be
> > accessed through symbolic references.
> >
> > Ronald
>
> Whilst it true that they do not live in the symbol table, I doubt that
> is the reason they can't be accessed through symbolic references since
> perl wouldn't have much trouble looking up a lexical by name.
That's documented that way, apparently since 5.001, so I'd call this a
feature.
Time to verify if there's a regression test for this :
$foo = 1; my $foo = 2;
print ${foo}," ",${'foo'},"\n";
--> prints "2 1".
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