RE: What's up with %MY?

[Garrett Goebel]

From: Dave Mitchell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> "Bryan C. Warnock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mused:
> > Consider it like, oh, PATH and executables:
> > `perl` will search PATH and execute the first perl
> > found, but 'rm perl' will not.  It would only remove
> > a perl in my current scope..., er, directory.
> 
> But surely %MY:: allows you to access/manipulate
> variables that are in scope, not just variables are
> defined in the current scope, ie
> 
> my $x = 100;
> {
>     print $MY::{'$x'};
> }
> 
> I would expect that to print 100, not 'undef'. Are your 
> expectations different?

Hmm, shouldn't that print something like SCALAR(0x1b9289c)?

If you meant ${$MY::{'$x'}} then I'd agree...