Re: What are typeglobs (useful for)?

[borisz]

I use them as shortcut/alias from time to time:

*xyz = \&X::YY::ZZ::function;

or as a alias for a scalar's:

my $string = 'Hi          There';
local *_ = \$string;
s/\s+/ /g;
print $string;
__OUTPUT__
Hi There