According to Alan Burlison: > I bet there is at least one XSUB out there that does sniff around... I think we've never considered the internal structure of HVs as part of the published API. Shirley, code like that is fair game. -- Chip Salzenberg - a.k.a. - <chip@pobox.com> "I wanted to play hopscotch with the impenetrable mystery of existence, but he stepped in a wormhole and had to go in early." // MST3K