Symbol

Provides functions for creating anonymous globs and qualifying variable names. Exports the following.

gensym 

Creates an anonymous glob and returns a reference to it that can be used as a filehandle or directory handle.

qualify (symname[, pkg]) 

Turns unqualified symbol names into qualified variable names (e.g., turns myvar into MyPackage::myvar).

qualify_to_ref (symname[, pkg]) 

Like qualify, but returns a glob reference that can be used even if use strict 'refs' is in effect.

ungensym 

For backward compatibility only; does nothing.