I can do this: my $hashref = \%hash;
But as near as I can tell, there is no way to do the reverse operation: making a "my %hash" that is an alias for a hash reference.
It's possible with a package variable:
#/usr/bin/perl
our %hash;
my $hashref = { a => 5 , b => 8 };
*hash = $hashref;
print $hash{a};
that prints "5". But there's no way to do this with a lexical (my)
variable.
is this right? -- Aaron Priven, [EMAIL PROTECTED],com, http://www.priven.com/aaron
