At 11:10 AM 7/18/2001 -0400, darren chamberlain wrote:
>Greg London <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said something to this effect on
>07/18/2001:
> > can someone explain somethig for me, please:
> >
> > bless \ [@_], $package;
> > question: what's the '\' character do?
>
>\ takes a reference to the variable it preceeds, so in this case,
>it is taking a reference to an anonymous list. For example:
That should be "anonymous array". There's no such thing as an anonymous
list in perl 5. (There is in perl 6, though you can't take a reference to it)
Dan
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