On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 03:18:29PM +0200, Juerd wrote: : Autrijus Tang skribis 2005-05-04 21:13 (+0800): : > What should this do, if not infinite loop? : > my ($x, $y); $x = \$y; $y = \$x; $x[0] = 1; : : I'm still against any explict scalar dereferencing, so: fail, : complaining about $x not being an arrayreference (not knowing how : to handle &postcircumfix:<[ ]>).
Yes, it doesn't immediately deref as an array, so it fails. Now @$x would infinite loop according to what I said a couple weeks ago, but maybe that's just the "go down one level" form that was requested at the time, and @$$x is the "go however many it takes" form. Larry
