From: Michael Campbell <michael.campbell@...>
Date: 2004-06-02T00:47:29+09:00
Subject: Re: variable -- set value

On Tue, 1 Jun 2004 20:53:47 +0900, orbit <orbit@klientsky.ru> wrote:
> 
> orbit@klientsky.ru (orbit) wrote in message news:<734420e9.0405310551.2526ea0@posting.google.com>...
> > Whot can I set value for variable which name cosist ather variable?
> >
> > var1 = "@var2"
> 
> I want, that as in Perl was
> cat p1.pl
> 
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> 
> $foo = "xo-xo";
> print "1 - foo = $foo\n";
> $scalarref = \$foo;
> $$scalarref = "xe-xe";
> print "2 - foo = $foo\n";
> 
> ../p1.pl
> 1 - foo = xo-xo
> 2 - foo = xe-xe


I think that even the royal perl monarchy discourage the use of
softrefs as "bad practice", no?