YAPC::NA 2004 | The Perl Debugger | #6 |
Symbolic References
$name = "username"; $$name = "da"; # sets $username # Symbolic refs confusing and USUALLY a BAD IDEA use strict; my $ref = "foo"; print $$ref; # runtime error $ref = \$foo; print $$ref; # ok- that's a regular reference |
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