Re: $$ What does it mean?

[Paul Johnson]

On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 08:25:45AM -0500, Gibbs Tanton - tgibbs wrote:
> $$varname dereferences $varname in a scalar context.  So in your example
> below, $ref is an array reference.  So, @$ref is the actual array and
> $$ref[0] is the first element of @$ref, etc...

... more usually and, in my opinion, better expressed as $ref->[0]

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