Hi John. See in-line.
"John W. Krahn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > Paul Johnson wrote: > > > > I am saying that an anonymous array has no name, but it can be accessed > > via a reference to it. > > In that case the reference name is its name > So you are saying that no accessible data in Perl can be anonymous. I doubt if you believe that; in an earlier post you said: > No, an anonymous array is delimited by [ and ]. That is creating an > actual array that is only accessible through an array reference. > > my $ref = [ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 ]; > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > anonymous array which seems to contradict what you are saying here. This is an array which, as Paul says, 'has no name, but can be accessed via a reference to it', that reference being held in $ref. I'll stick my neck out and say that this is _identical_ in all respects to my @$ref = (1, 2, 3, 4, 5); which you now say is a named array, with the name 'ARRAY(0x12345678)'. Certainly it's a valid paradigm, but a very unusual one. Cheers, Rob -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
