${$name x 2} = 3; # Sets $foofoo
$name->[0] = 4; # Sets $foo[0]
@$name = (); # Clears @foo
- &$name(); # Calls &foo() (as in Perl 4)
+ &$name(); # Calls &foo()
$pack = "THAT";
${"${pack}::$name"} = 5; # Sets $THAT::foo without eval
=head2 Not-so-symbolic references
-Since Perl verion 5.001, brackets around a symbolic reference can simply
+Brackets around a symbolic reference can simply
serve to isolate an identifier or variable name from the rest of an
expression, just as they always have within a string. For example,
print "${push}over";
has always meant to print "pop on over", even though push is
-a reserved word. In 5.001, this was generalized to work the same
+a reserved word. This is generalized to work the same
without the enclosing double quotes, so that
print ${push} . "over";
print ${ push } . "over";
-will have the same effect. (This would have been a syntax error in
-Perl 5.000, though Perl 4 allowed it in the spaceless form.) This
+will have the same effect. This
construct is I<not> considered to be a symbolic reference when you're
using strict refs: