On Tuesday 18 July 2006 18:05, Rob Dixon wrote:
> Bjørge Solli wrote:
> > On Tuesday 18 July 2006 16:45, John W. Krahn wrote:
> >>Leonid Grinberg wrote:
> >>>sub function
> >>>{
> >>> my %operating_systems = &populate_hash(%operating_systems);
> >>
> >> my %operating_systems = populate_hash
Rob Dixon wrote:
>
> I am surprised that the Llama book encourages coding in this way as the
> ampersand has been undesirable for a long time. Do you have the latest
> edition -
> the third?
The fourth. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/learnperl4/index.html
John
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Bjørge Solli wrote:
>
> On Tuesday 18 July 2006 16:45, John W. Krahn wrote:
>
>>Leonid Grinberg wrote:
>>
>>>sub function
>>>{
>>> my %operating_systems = &populate_hash(%operating_systems);
>>
>> my %operating_systems = populate_hash(%operating_systems);
>
>
> Why do you want to remove the amper
> -Original Message-
> From: John W. Krahn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2006 11:48 AM
> To: Perl Beginners
> Subject: Re: Passing a hash to a function
>
> Bjørge Solli wrote:
> > On Tuesday 18 July 2006 16:45, John W. Krahn wrote
Bjørge Solli wrote:
> On Tuesday 18 July 2006 16:45, John W. Krahn wrote:
>>Leonid Grinberg wrote:
>>>sub function
>>>{
>>> my %operating_systems = &populate_hash(%operating_systems);
>> my %operating_systems = populate_hash(%operating_systems);
>
> Why do you want to remove the ampersand? In /th
On Tuesday 18 July 2006 16:45, John W. Krahn wrote:
> Leonid Grinberg wrote:
> > sub function
> > {
> > my %operating_systems = &populate_hash(%operating_systems);
>
> my %operating_systems = populate_hash(%operating_systems);
Why do you want to remove the ampersand? In /the Llama book/, includ
Leonid Grinberg wrote:
> Hello all,
Hello,
> I have a question about passing a hash to a fucntion. Suppose you had
> the following script:
>
>
> sub function
> {
> my %operating_systems = &populate_hash(%operating_systems);
my %operating_systems = populate_hash(%operating_systems);
> do_
sub function
{
my %operating_systems = &populate_hash(%operating_systems);
do_something_with_hash();
}
sub populate_hash
{
my %operating_systems = ?;
$operating_systems{"microsoft"} = "Windows";
$operating_systems{"apple"} = "Macintosh";
...
return %operating_systems;
}
What should t
Hello all,
I have a question about passing a hash to a fucntion. Suppose you had
the following script:
sub function
{
my %operating_systems = &populate_hash(%operating_systems);
do_something_with_hash();
}
sub populate_hash
{
my %operating_systems = ?;
$operating_systems{"microsoft"} =
