On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 08:24:23PM +0200, Juerd wrote: : Larry Wall skribis 2005-04-06 11:10 (-0700): : > $$ref follow the ref list to the actual object. : : my $foo; : my $bar = \$foo; : my $quux = \$bar; : my $xyzzy = \$quux; : : How then, with only $xyzzy, do you get $bar? $$xyzzy would follow until : $foo. I don't like this at all.
You can't get at $bar anyway. You can only get at its thingy. Otherwise you're talking symbolic refs. : > $ref.foo() is one of those contexts that forces a deref. The only way : > to call methods on the Ref itself is through var($ref), or whatever : > it's called today. : : This is weird. Chains of scalar refs are weird. At least, they're weird to anyone but a C programmer or a Perl 5 programmer. We're trying to re-Huffmanize the weirdness of Perl 6. Larry
