On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 14:35, Uri Guttman wrote:
> the symbol table is just a special hash tree with
> global side effects. so why not just use a regular hash as it is safer
> (no global side issues), more flexible (you can pass it around, take
> references, create anonymous hashes) and you can create lexical hashes.
Pass it around:
perl -le 'sub foo{print ${$_[0]{x}}}$x=1;foo(\%::)'
Take references: see above
Create anonymous hashes: hmmm I've never tried that.... hmmm....
$anon_stash = \%{"__anon_stash__::"};
delete $::{"__anon_stash__::"};
# Now $anon_stash is truly anonymous
Oh, and yes, I agree that that's just wrong ;-)
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