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I'm trying to figure out the "right" way to dig through a
program's symbol table without disrupting it. According to the
docs, "defined" only works for scalars and subs. I would think
that "defined *{FOO}{THING}" would work for everything, but it
exhibits this annoying behavior:
$ perl -le 'sub x{};for (qw(SCALAR ARRAY HASH CODE IO)) { print
"foo-thing $_" if defined *{x}{$_}; }'
foo-thing SCALAR
foo-thing CODE
Indeed, if any other slot is defined, *{FOO}{SCALAR} seems to be
defined. Is this intended behavior?
I am currently using *{FOO}{THING} for everything but scalars,
and (afterwards) "defined $FOO" for scalars, but it seems like
there should be a better way.
Sean
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