RE: interview question

[Nutter, Mark]

> can someone pl tell me what is the best ans to the interview question
> 
> "what is tie ?"

In 25 words or less, "Tie lets you attach custom functionality to a scalar,
hash, or array."  Common uses of tie include mapping a hash or an array to a
database table so that you can create/search/update/delete records using
simple Perl notation for hashes/arrays.  It can also be used for things like
creating a scalar that returns a timestamp, or a constant, or a
randomly-generated quote, or whatever.