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Re: Why does Perl have typeglobs?by hardburn (Abbot) |
on Jul 08, 2014 at 19:33 UTC ( [id://1092778]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
A long time ago, it was a way to carry around filehandles. Perl 5.8 (I think) allowed lexicals to hold filehandles, so this use died out. Most useful thing I've found is to make a list of simple accessors in a class:
But even this has tended to go away with meta-object systems like Moose (which do similar things under the hood). "There is no shame in being self-taught, only in not trying to learn in the first place." -- Atrus, Myst: The Book of D'ni.
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