On Friday, February 7, 2003, at 02:07 PM, Uri Guttman wrote:
the whole notion is that lists are always temporary and arrays can be asAlong those lines, the closest I've been able to come so far to a usable two-sentence definition is:
permanent as you want (an array ref going quickly out of scope is very
temporary). lists can't live beyond the current expression but arrays can.
-- A list is an ordered set of scalar values.
-- An array is an object that stores a list.
But I'm not sure that holds water.
MikeL