On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 09:51:29AM -0600, Luke Palmer wrote: > Actually, you can't reference a slice! Where the heck does the > reference point? I would probably do:
Of course not. I presume it points to something non-existent just like a substring reference would in perl5 :-) $ perl -le '$a = "pie contest"; $b = \substr $a, 1, 9; $$b = "arro"; print $a' parrot Nicholas Clark
