On Sun, 26 Aug 2007 12:17:49 -0400, Mr. Shawn H. Corey wrote: > Peter Scott wrote: >> Don't use the term "symlink", however tempting, or you'll confuse >> yourself and others about real symlinks. Yes, it's not an array in the >> hash; it's a scalar containing a *reference* to an array, and there may or >> may not be other references to that array elsewhere in the program >> depending on how the reference was constructed (with the anonymous >> arrayref constructor or with the reference to a named array). >> > > Even anonymous arrays can be accessed from more than one place.
Right. I phrased that badly. The poster appeared to be wondering whether there could be another reference to the array already in existence at the time the arrayref was created in the hash and that was what I had in mind. -- Peter Scott http://www.perlmedic.com/ http://www.perldebugged.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
