"Bakken, Luke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Are there 'aliases' in perl? For example, if I have a Korn
> > shell script and
> > a function named "increaseCost()", I can do this: "alias
> > decreaseCose=increaseCost" (passing a parameter in)..... of
> > course this is a
> > simplified example of what I want to do, but the point is to make it
> > self-documenting.
> >
> > Maybe what I need is a "reference" ?
>
> Personally, I've never (directly) used this feature, but here it is:
>
> use strict;
>
> sub foo
> {
> print "Called foo\n";
> }
>
> *bar = \&foo;
>
> foo();
>
> bar();
Exactly what I am looking for! THANKS!!!
-Jeff
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