On Fri, 2002-08-30 at 04:30, H.Merijn Brand wrote:
> I was thinking about highjacking a standard function: read ()
>
> read filehandle, $var, length [, offset]
>
> and use it like
>
> read [ \"PERL_status" ], $mem, "memory";
>
> which is very illegal at the moment :) but probably easy to catch in the
> internals and than we've got a new gate to a welth of internal info :)
Why not a simple(!) magic hash, or an entire namespace?
print $PROC{"memory used"};
print $PROC::memory_used;
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Bryan C. Warnock
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