Re: •Re: What is %:: used for?

[SarahM]

Is export written in perl? I would have thought that export was written in the c code that makes up perl! But if export is written in perl, I can definitely see the use of %::.

[merlyn]

Yes it's in Perl! See perldoc -m Exporter, but don't stare at it too hard before you're ready to understand and respect the smoke and mirrors revealed.

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker

[SarahM]

Thanks, it's definitely more complex then anything I've written...but it's not that bad to follow, you just need to understand typeglobs and the system table structure.