On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 06:11:43PM +0800, Jeff Pang wrote: > Irfan Sayed: >> Hi All, >> >> Can somebody please tell me what is the difference between "=" and ":=" sign >> in case of perl?? >> > > I never saw ":=" in any perl code.
$ perl5.10.1 -E 'my $a = 4; my $b := $a; say $b' 4 $ perl5.11.1 -E 'my $a = 4; my $b := $a; say $b' Use of := for an empty attribute list is deprecated at -e line 1. 4 Which also tells you what is going on, and that there may be future plans for := -- Paul Johnson - [email protected] http://www.pjcj.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] http://learn.perl.org/
