On Aug 2, James Edward Gray II said:
>I'm still a little confused about why that works. Is it because after
>the subroutine is "exported" it's called from inside the same namespace
>as the hash and can manipulate it at will? Or am I just lost (quite
>possible)?
When you export a hash, you're not copying it, you're aliasing it.
%main::hash is not a COPY of %MyExporter::hash, but an alias to it. The
exporting procedure is:
my $pkg = caller; # who is exporting us?
*{ $pkg . '::hash' } = \%hash;
That's basically what happens.
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