On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 09:38:58PM +0800, Autrijus Tang wrote:
: On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 06:24:34AM -0700, Larry Wall wrote:
: > Yes, it doesn't immediately deref as an array, so it fails.
:
: Oh. So autodereference is only one level? I got it all wrong
: in Pugs, then. I wonder where I got that impression...
Oh, you probably got that impression from me. I probably even believe
it now and then. Maybe I'll believe it again tomorrow...
: > 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 @$$x is the "go however many it takes" form.
:
: Err, wait. So @$$x is different from @{${$x}}?
Nah, those should be equivalent, whatever sematics we come up with.
Larry
