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Re (tilly) 5: NEWBIE Brain Teaserby tilly (Archbishop) |
| on Apr 16, 2001 at 19:53 UTC ( #72849=note: print w/ replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
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That aliasing command relies on typeglobs to work. Therefore it will only work with global variables. (ie you must localize with local, not my.) I stay away from that except when it really doesn't make sense not to. :-) The mostly widely used form of that kind of aliasing in modern Perl is for exporting symbols using Exporter. FWIW one goal for Perl 6 is to kill typeglobs entirely. The functionality should be available, but by a different mechanism...
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