On 5 Dec 2001, at 14:46, Eugene van der Pijll wrote: > Bernie Cosell schreef op 05 december 2001: > > On 5 Dec 2001, at 14:09, Eugene van der Pijll wrote:
> > 2) WHY does perl allow this --- it still seems like a slam-dunk syntax error > > situation to me > > The global variables @a, $a, %a and &a are all stored in the same data > structure (the typeglob, see perldata). Therefore, if the subscript > separator variable $; can be used, there should be an entry in the > symbol table for ;, and @;, %; and &; are valid names. Aha. THANKS.. The light bulb slowly begins to glimmer. Of course: if Perl needs to be able to support all the $<char> scalars, then symtab entries for them must exist, and so you ought to be able to do anything with them. So I would now not be at all surprised to find out that you can have a hash and and array named ";". /Bernie\ -- Bernie Cosell Fantasy Farm Fibers mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Pearisburg, VA --> Too many people, too few sheep <--
