New subroutine Symbol::qualify_to_ref()

New subroutine Symbol::qualify_to_ref()

Subject: Re: select under use strict

On Tue, 11 Mar 1997 16:36:25 -0500 (EST), Trevor Blackwell <tlb@viaweb.com> said:
>
>   use strict;
>   syswrite(select,"",0) || warn("$!");
[...]
> yields:
>
>   Can't use string ("main::STDOUT") as a symbol ref [...]

It seems a reasonable candidate for a new function in Symbol.pm, a
function just like qualify() which returns a globref.  Here's an
implementation.  I'll send this in again after 5.004.  In the meanwhile
you could just put something like it in your own code.

Usage would be like

    syswrite ref_qualify(select), "foo\n", 4 or die $!;

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