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From:
Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
Date:
June 19, 2008 19:55
Subject:
Re: How to dig through symbol tables
Message ID:
57540.63.231.49.141.1213930500.squirrel@webmail.efn.org
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_GVSV


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