Re: [MacPerl] print hash question: why *

[pudge@pobox.com (Chris Nandor)]

At 23.08 12/24/97, Xah Lee wrote:
>Ask => *MacPerl::Ask
>
>Where does the '*' came up? (probably a stupid question)

Not a stupid question.  The '*' is a typeglob; I don't think I can explain
it better than the documentation can.  See help under "Data structures" and
do a search for "typeglob".

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