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On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 04:48:44AM -0000, Graciliano M. P. wrote:
> Why when you access the {SCALAR} key of a symbol entry in the
> Symbol Table of a package it always return a scalar reference?!
> Even if the scalar, or any symbol (array, hash, glob) with this
> name is not defined!
> At least this need to be documented!
It's in perlref:
*foo{THING} returns undef if that particular THING hasn't been
used yet, except in the case of scalars. *foo{SCALAR} returns
a reference to an anonymous scalar if $foo hasn't been used yet.
This might change in a future release.
--
Steve
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