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Sunday December 07, 2003

06:45 PM

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Also of interest (Score:1)

by drhyde (1683)

is Scalar::Properties, which also allows for attaching out-of-band information to scalars. While it can have some odd side-effects, it's easier to use.
Monitoring with Names (Score:1)

by n1vux (1492)

I am really glad you included this example, since I was thinking on the previous Tied example that an Attribute autotie would be a useful helper for that one.
I would find monitoring multiple variables all called $VAR1 frustrating. So I would want to extend the example to use the 2-arg version of Data::Dumper::Dump. Finger-painting, we can replace the Report loop with

print Data::Dumper::Dump([@monitoring{sort keys %monitoring}],[sort keys %monitoring]);

To do that, we need to capture the name of the moni

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