I am interfacing to an ancient 4(ish)GL library. It defines a number of tied (global) variables which are defined internally to the library but are not (necessarily) yet defined in perl.
So we have some code that looks like this:- use FF; $SBOL::ACCNO = $SYUS::LOGNAME; This are variables which are tied (this all works) using other routines. However, I want it to be possible for this bald statement to work by means of the 'system' picking up each varname, if it is as yet undefined, and executing (probably) a piece of XS which causes it to be defined. This is, in effect, AUTOLOAD for variable names with a default handler in the 'main' package. Dirk
