> There isn't much written on namerefs for two reasons:
>
> 1) They're quite new.
> 2) They're pretty useless. :(
It depends on what your expectations are. Namerefs are essentially variable
name aliases. For their stated purpose -- passing variable names to shell
functions and allowing those functions to modify the named variable -- they
are ok.
Chet
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