*foo{THING}

[Sec]

In the source of Attribute::Handlers, I found *{$globref}{NAME}. I tried to find documentation on that, but failed.
I know about *foo{THING} in "perlref", but it only describes

               $scalarref = *foo{SCALAR};
               $arrayref  = *ARGV{ARRAY};
               $hashref   = *ENV{HASH};
               $coderef   = *handler{CODE};
               $ioref     = *STDIN{IO};
               $globref   = *foo{GLOB};

No mention of *foo{NAME}. Can anyone show me where that is documented, and what other *foo{THING}s are defined?

[dave_the_m]

NAME is the name of the glob, eg

$ ./perl -le 'print *FOO{NAME}'
FOO
$

Not sure why it isn't documented. Theres also FORMAT and PACKAGE.

Dave.

[tphyahoo]

keys %:: and Of Symbol Tables and Globs are good discussions of esoteric aspects of typeglobs and the symbol table.

[ysth]

*foo{NAME} and *foo{PACKAGE} are documented in http://perldoc.perl.org/perlmod.html#Symbol-Tables. They are somewhat different from the others.

*foo{FORMAT} is only available from 5.7.0 on. *foo{FILEHANDLE} is a deprecated version of *foo{IO}.