Re: Sample answers to Christmas Quiz

2008-12-19 Thread Simon Cozens
David Alban wrote: 4) How many different variable types are there in Perl? Be as sensibly voluminous in your answer as you are able. i would have said only two: scalar and list, since arrays and hashes are both lists. The question was about variable types, not value types. (The horror.)

Sample answers to Christmas Quiz

2008-12-18 Thread Chris Jack
Having written the quiz, and as actual answers seem to have faded to a trickle, I thought I ought to offer some sample answers of my own. Apologies ahead of time for any line break issues - but I have tried my hardest to avoid them! 1) Name as many different reasons Larry Wall has given for

Re: Sample answers to Christmas Quiz

2008-12-18 Thread David Alban
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 10:17 AM, Chris Jack chris_j...@msn.com wrote: 4) How many different variable types are there in Perl? Be as sensibly voluminous in your answer as you are able. have been asked this in more interviews that I care to recall and generally interviewers seem to be

Re: Sample answers to Christmas Quiz

2008-12-18 Thread Philip Newton
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 19:58, David Alban exta...@extasia.org wrote: On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 10:17 AM, Chris Jack chris_j...@msn.com wrote: 4) How many different variable types are there in Perl? Be as sensibly voluminous in your answer as you are able. have been asked this in more