Hi,
I just want to alias a scalar to a different package var. But only the * notation work as expected. This looks like a bug to me, but propably someone can explain the behavior.

I expect, that both aliases do the same and the output is 'boris boris'

package XYZ;
sub test { local *name = \'boris'; $_[1]->() }

package ABC;

*scalar_alias = \$XYZ::name;    # does not work
*glob_alias   = *XYZ::name;     # DWIM

package main;
use warnings;

XYZ->test(
  sub {
    print 'scalar_alias: ', $XYZ::name, ' ', $ABC::scalar_alias, $/;
    print 'glob_alias:   ', $XYZ::name, ' ', $ABC::glob_alias,   $/;
  }
);
__OUTPUT__
scalar_alias: boris 
glob_alias:   boris boris
Use of uninitialized value in print at untitled 74.pl line 15.
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