Re: Of Symbol Tables and Globs

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No treatment of symbol tables and globs is truly complete without a walkthrough (or at least a mention) of that wonderous piece of twisted beauty, Symbol::gensym().

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Re^2: Of Symbol Tables and Globs by Random_Walk (Prior) on Jul 20, 2005 at 12:03 UTC
For those intrigued as I was here is a link to Symbol documentation. And a brief cut'n'past from aforementioned docs ... `Symbol::gensym` creates an anonymous glob and returns a reference to it. Such a glob reference can be used as a file or directory handle. A search found it used to open a bunch of file handled in the days before you could do lexical file handles (see first answer in Open file issues) Cheers, R. Pereant, qui ante nos nostra dixerunt!	[reply] [d/l]

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Re^2: Of Symbol Tables and Globs
by Random_Walk (Prior) on Jul 20, 2005 at 12:03 UTC

For those intrigued as I was here is a link to Symbol documentation. And a brief cut'n'past from aforementioned docs ...

Symbol::gensym creates an anonymous glob and returns a reference to it. Such a glob reference can be used as a file or directory handle.

Open file issues

Cheers,
R.

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