On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 05:49:58PM +0000, Piers Cawley wrote: > Dave Storrs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Ideally, there could even be a per-list switch and a global switch > > that says "(don't) show unique ids when interpolating lists/arrays". > > By default, it gets set to "show", but it can be turned off if you > > want. > > What would that gain you? Apart from a global variable the world would > be better off without? Remember, if you want to print it out without > the 'id' information you can just do C<print @$array_ref>;
It would mean that, by setting a command line switch or passing a command-line argument, I could change the behaviour of my code without having to change the code. --Dks
