>>>>> "Ragnar" == Ragnar Hojland Espinosa <ragnar at linalco.com> writes:

Ragnar> I'll restate my problem again.

Ragnar>      $a = "hello";
Ragnar>      $b = "world";
Ragnar>      $c = "a";
Ragnar>      print $$c;     # references $a, and therferoe prints hello
Ragnar>      $c = "b";
Ragnar>      print $$c;     # and now prints world

If that's Perl, that's bad and evil Perl.  There are many better
ways to do that.

If that's PHP, that's a forced evil of PHP, and why I disrecommend PHP.

Please don't learn how to do that in Smalltalk.  I'm not even sure
it's possible, since method temps are lexically scoped.

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