[LA.pm] Alias to a dynamically scoped variable?
William Reardon
wdr1 at pobox.com
Sat Aug 27 19:17:05 PDT 2005
At 5:15 PM -0700 8/27/05, Brian Cooke wrote:
>The "my" variables are lexically scoped, rather than dynamically scoped
>(i.e., package variables localized at runtime using "local"). You are
>correct: The *foo = *bar is manipulating the symbol table, and lexicals
>don't live there. An interesting module that will alias lexical variables
>is Lexical::Alias. If you say:
Awesome! I seem to have flipped dynamic & lexical in my head.
Thanks for the correction & the pointer!
-Bill
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