Re: Tying sub arguments is rare?

[email protected] (Chip Salzenberg) Wed, 13 Oct 1999 14:10:07 -0700
Newsgroups perl.perl6.porters
Message-ID <[email protected]>
According to Graham Barr:
> On Wed, Oct 13, 1999 at 01:20:33PM -0700, Chip Salzenberg wrote:
> > I hardly think tying variables to which references already exist
> > is a common practice.
> 
> Then, unless it has changed, I guess you have not used Tk recently

Tk!  Aaugh!  The people in eyeball hats!  I'm ready for my close-up,
Mr. Wall....

> as IIRC there are some modules there which call tie via a reference
> that was passed to the sub, so it is quite possible that other
> references exist.

Gr.  Grrr.

> But then Tk will need a lot of work if XS is not going to be
> compatible as it stresses XS now :-)

I see a thin thread of hope.  Are the ties via references user-visible?
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