Re: dereferencing

On 10/29/07, Aaron Priven <aaron@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I can do this:

my $hashref = \%hash;

But as near as I can tell, there is no way to do the reverse
operation: making a "my %hash" that is an alias for a hash reference.

You mean, given a reference to a hash, create a named lexical hash
that that reference refers to? No, that's not possible. Why would you
even want to do that? Is it just a matter of convenience, so you can
avoid dereferencing?

As you found, you can manipulate the symbol table so that a name
refers to a hash from a reference, but lexical variables aren't in the
symbol table.

Cheers!

--Tom Phoenix
Stonehenge Perl Training
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