I wrote a nice little tutorial for Perl Monks on symbol tables and globs. If I get around to it, I'll tidy it up a bit more and submit to p5p as YAMP. After that it'll be a tutorial for lexical scoping, and finally a tutorial for closures (that'll be fun ...), then I shall sleep easier at night (or maybe that should be: I'll sleep at night ;).
And I did figure out how to use extract_quotelike() in the end, and may CPAN-ify it some time in the future as it is awful handy if your source munging. broquaint out