From: Mark Sparshatt <msparshatt@...>
Date: 2004-06-08T07:04:31+09:00
Subject: Re: How to ducktype a Hash?

Austin Ziegler wrote:

<snip>

>I seem to recall reading
>something in the last year or so that suggests that Matz did add
>something to the language that was either *hard* or *ugly* because he
>wanted it to be used rarely, but available. I don't remember what it
>was.
>
>  
>
I think you're reffering to needing a $ in front of global variables. 
IIRC this is to discourage the use of globals.

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Mark Sparshatt