[perl #41472] *glob notation documentation error in perlref.pod

On Sun Sep 26 14:32:21 2010, sprout wrote:
> > perlref says "The *glob notation is something of a symbolic
> > reference.", it
> > should not.  This is a very misleading statement, and can be
> > interpreted in
> > a way which is incorrect.
> 
> I don’t understand. Could you me more specific?

A *glob is something of a symbolic reference, because, like a symbol
name, a typeglob represents all the data that have that name.  So I
think the documentation is correct as it is.

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Father Chrysostomos


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• *glob notation documentation error in perlref.pod by Joseph Evers
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• [perl #41472] *glob notation documentation error in perlref.pod by Father Chrysostomos via RT
• [perl #41472] *glob notation documentation error in perlref.pod by Joseph Evers