*foo{THING}

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

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Re: *foo{THING} by dave_the_m (Monsignor) on Jul 20, 2005 at 10:59 UTC
NAME is the name of the glob, eg $ ./perl -le 'print *FOO{NAME}' FOO $ [download] Not sure why it isn't documented. Theres also FORMAT and PACKAGE. Dave.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: *foo{THING} by tphyahoo (Vicar) on Jul 20, 2005 at 11:11 UTC
keys %:: and Of Symbol Tables and Globs are good discussions of esoteric aspects of typeglobs and the symbol table.	[reply]
Re: *foo{THING} by ysth (Canon) on Jul 21, 2005 at 16:10 UTC
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}.	[reply]

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