Re: Tying sub arguments is rare?

On Wed, Oct 13, 1999 at 03:55:46PM -0500, [email protected] wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 13, 1999 at 01:20:33PM -0700, Chip Salzenberg wrote:
> > According to John Porter:
> > > Is having it behave differently from perl5 a big deal?
> > 
> > That's the key question, isn't it?  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
> 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.

Can you be more specific?  Is the tieing to detect when a variable
changes?

> I think your assumption that this is not practice is not used a lot
> is a badly informed one.

Please inform us.

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