At 09:35 AM 6/15/01 -0400, you wrote:
>So why would you call a reference to an array instead of just calling the
>array itself?
Assuming your question doesn't contain some implication to the thread but
it just a general question of why an arrayref is useful, why, many
reasons. For one, you can't construct a 2-dimensional array without
one. Or pass multiple variable-length lists to a subroutine:
interleave([qw(see useful can)], [qw(how this be)])
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