On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 01:59:28PM +0200, Aaron Craig wrote:
>
> You are correct -- I should have read the documention :) However, in every
> day programming-speak, list and array get tossed about in such a way that
> they become synonymous. A list and an array seem to be effectively the
> same thing -- except that a list is constant and an array is not. You
> might even say that a list is an array that you can't mess with.
>
> Which brings up a question on my part. Are there any examples of the use
> of an array and the use of a list where labelling them differently make
> something different happen? IE
>
> foreach (0..9); # list, correct?
> foreach (@array); # array
foreach takes a list, but Perl will happily convert your array into a
list for you.
> to the average programmer, how does calling 0..9 an array screw them up?
I suppose it stops them becoming more than an average programmer :-)
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