On 10/29/07, Aaron Priven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can do this: > > my $hashref = \%hash; > > But as near as I can tell, there is no way to do the reverse > operation: making a "my %hash" that is an alias for a hash reference.
You mean, given a reference to a hash, create a named lexical hash that that reference refers to? No, that's not possible. Why would you even want to do that? Is it just a matter of convenience, so you can avoid dereferencing? As you found, you can manipulate the symbol table so that a name refers to a hash from a reference, but lexical variables aren't in the symbol table. Cheers! --Tom Phoenix Stonehenge Perl Training -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
