Thanks, Jeff.
Now I understand why I thought the Perl compiler was excessively chatty.
=)
- B
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On Jun 6, Bryan R Harris said:
>1. What is a sigil?
Consult your nearest dictionary. Sigil == symbol.
>2. I like to make little reference pages for myself, do these terms lo
Ok. Tim would have got it, but the Tim interpreter, tim, still has some
bugs to work out.
-Original Message-
From: Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 12:56 PM
To: Timothy Johnson
Cc: Bryan R Harris; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: refe
On Jun 6, Timothy Johnson said:
>"If $x = \\"bar",
>then $$x returns a reference (to "bar") which is a scalar, but certainly
>NOT a string."
>
>How is "bar" not a string?
You've misparsed my use of parentheses here.
If $x = \\"bar", then $$x returns a reference which is a scalar, but
cert
' Pinyan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 12:45 PM
To: Bryan R Harris
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: references and dereferencing
On Jun 6, Bryan R Harris said:
>1. What is a sigil?
Consult your nearest dictionary. Sigil == symbol.
>2. I like to make
On Jun 6, Bryan R Harris said:
>1. What is a sigil?
Consult your nearest dictionary. Sigil == symbol.
>2. I like to make little reference pages for myself, do these terms look
>right?
I'd suggest scouring perlreftut and perlref.
># GETTING POINTERS
Stop using the word "pointer" right now.
I'm starting to get this...
A couple more questions:
1. What is a sigil?
2. I like to make little reference pages for myself, do these terms look
right?
# pointers are scalars
# GETTING POINTERS
\$mystring; # returns a pointer to mystring
\@myarray;# returns a pointer to myar
On Jun 6, Nikola Janceski said:
>is there a difference between:
>
>@{ $HASH{$key} } = @array;
>$HASH{$key} = \@array;
Yes. The first overwrites everything currently contained in the array
reference $HASH{$key}; the second merely creates a new array reference,
and binds it @array.
Watch:
my
One last question:
is there a difference between:
@{ $HASH{$key} } = @array;
$HASH{$key} = \@array;
??
I really appreciate the references lesson! 8^)
- Nik
The views and opinions expressed in th
On Jun 6, Nikola Janceski said:
>$$onediminsional_hash_ref{$key}
>@$onediminsional_array_ref[$index]
The leading sigil denotes the amount of stuff being returned, NOT the data
structure being worked with! It is the {} and [] that determine the data
structure.
@ARRAY = (1 .. 10);
$x = \@ARR
dex]
I guess it doens't work with multidimensional data structures?
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> From: Jenda Krynicky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 11:42 AM
> To: Beginners (E-mail)
> Subject: Re: references and dereferencing
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