Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said something to this effect on 07/18/2001:
> 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.
Right, my mistake. I thought I was being pretty careful about
not confusing arrays and lists, too... Damn! :)
> (There is in perl 6, though you can't take a reference to it)
Can you elaborate on that?
(darren)
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