--- Silvio Luis Leite Santana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thank you very much for your help
> about Perl.
>
> There's just something I didn't get yet.
> When I write
>
> *PI = 5;
>
> What am I really doing?
I think you meant
*PI = \5;
Which is assigning the glob PI a reference to a literal scalar, which
will be therefore stored in the scalar slot of the glob.
That means that $PI will now have an UNEDITABLE value of 5 (though you
could still reassign to *PI if you wanted....)
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