You’re right. Mark-Jason Dominus’s 1998 essay “Why it’s stupid to ‘use a variable as a variable name’” seems to be apropos here: http://perl.plover.com/varvar

You’re right. Mark-Jason Dominus’s 1998 essay “Why it’s stupid to ‘use a variable as a variable name’” seems to be apropos here: http://perl.plover.com/varvarname.html http://perl.plover.com/varvarname.html