From: Mark Hulme Jones <ture@...>
Date: 2002-05-30T23:04:28+09:00
Subject: Re: object-name = content of a variable (migration from perl)

Michael Campbell <michael_s_campbell@yahoo.com> writes:

> --- Marc Rene Arns <linux@marcrenearns.de> wrote:
> > I'm not sure if you got me right. The dynamically changing
> > array-names was in respect to the abilities of PERL.
> 
> One poster used "eval" to do this, which is certainly possible.
> 
> I have to ask though... why?  Just to see how ruby mimics a perl
> language feature?  
> 
> If I recall correctly, perl's soft references are little more than
> syntactic sugar for a specific form of "eval" anyway.

Not only this, but soft/symbolic references are considered
'dangerous', and don't work if you 'use strict;', something that any
Perl program over a dozen or so lines should probably be doing.

-- 
Mark Hulme-Jones < ture@plig.net >