On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 06:44:55PM -0400, Kurt Hutchinson wrote:
: On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 11:23:34PM +0300, Roie Marianer wrote:
: > That makes sense, but that would make
: > %num_of_lines<file> = @file
: > not DWIM... of course that would translate into
: > %num_of_lines<file> = scalar @file
: > so maybe that's OK.
:
: In order to promote proper syntactical thinking, note that this is now
: spelled:
:
: %num_of_lines<file> = @file.elems;
Or more succinctly:
%num_of_lines<file> = [EMAIL PROTECTED];
: because the Perl 5 way would put a reference to @file in the hash.
: Scalar context always makes references now, from what I understand.
Interestingly, a stored reference would track the current number of
lines rather than taking a snapshot. But you should definitely think
of it as storing a reference rather than the number of lines, because
the ref will certainly behave differently in string context.
Larry
