I didn't know that usage model for strict refs. Thanks! Though, as you & others said, the moral issues still remain with that!
-Nilanjan -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeremy Muhlich Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2008 2:02 PM To: boston-pm Subject: Re: [Boston.pm] Interpolated scalar as an lvalue? On Thu, 2008-10-16 at 10:39 -0400, Ronald J Kimball wrote: > On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 08:32:41AM -0600, Palit, Nilanjan wrote: > > > Perl complains about the second line in the foreach loop during run time: > > Can't use string ("abc_type") as a SCALAR ref while "strict refs" in use at > > test1.pl line 19. > > > > The error message explains exactly what the problem is. You can't use > strings as refs while "strict refs" is in use. If you want to use strings > as refs, turn off "strict refs". > > no strict 'refs'; Actually Nilanjan, you can just turn off strict refs inside the block where you write your new code. No need to turn it off for the entire program. foreach ... { no strict 'refs'; $$varname = <something> } # refs are still strict out here -- Jeremy _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
