Re: Re: Variable Interpolation Interpolation

[dpatrick]

Dragonchild, why is it naughty to use symbolic references?

dpatrick
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[dragonchild]

Doing a search (which I'm too lazy to do) would yield some dozen or so threads on the matter.

A quick answer is this - symbolic references directly impact the symbol table. This could result in clobbering a variable you already have. As this is completely dependent on run-time activity, debugging this could be complex.

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