Shawn Corey wrote:
> John W. Krahn wrote:
>> Shawn Corey wrote:
>>> for my $key ( sort keys %{ { STOPWORDS } } ){
>>> my $value = ${ { STOPWORDS } }{$key};
>>
>>
>> In both lines you are copying the entire list to an anonymous hash.
>> If you
>> want efficient code (and less punctuation) you should just use a hash.
>
> Efficiency. There's that word again. If you truly want efficient code
> you won't create subroutines that return lists. They would return
> references to the lists or store them in global arrays.
You can't create a reference to a list.
John
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