On Thu, June 19, 2008 6:10 pm, Ben Morrow wrote: > Quoth sorourke@ucsd.edu: >> Indeed, if any other slot is defined, *{FOO}{SCALAR} seems to be >> defined. Is this intended behavior? > > Yes. If a glob exists at all it has a SCALAR slot. But see http://search.cpan.org/dist/perl-5.10.0/pod/perl5100delta.pod#PERL_DONT_CREATE_GVSVThread Previous | Thread Next