On Jul 25, Silvio Luis Leite Santana said:
>When I write
>
>*PI = 5;
>
>What am I really doing?
Well, you can assign a string to a typeglob, and Perl will assume that you
meant to assign a typeglob to a typeglob:
*first = *1;
"japhy" =~ /([aeiou])/;
print "$first\n"; # prints 'a'
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