Hello:
I have been fairly confused on the intermixing of array naming standards. If I
understand correctly, the @array syntaxt is used to refer to the whole array,
while $array[n] is refered to specific elements.
In my thinking, it would have been less confusing to use @array[n] to address
specific elements, but Perl complaines bitterly when warnings &/or strict is
enabled.
Is the rational for the "$"array[] character for identifying "@"array elements
due to the fact that the $ character has special meaning (denotes variable or
element) within double quoted text, while the @ sign has no special meanign
within double quotes.
Anyway, perhaps one of you syntactical thought police could give me some
insights to the rational. I find it very confusing that the $ and @ characters
are supposed to be used interchangeably to denote arrays, particularyly when I'm
trying to fathom the relation to other issues such as scalar or list context.
As I recall, hashes arso use % and @ interchangeably.
Thanks,
Lance
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#!/usr/bin/perl
print "Lance Murray, Information and Communications Systems\n", # department
"The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints\n", # employer and religion
"(801) 240-6583, murraylk\@ldschurch.org\n\n", # work phone number and email
"\"Better to do a little well than a lot poorly (Socrates)\"\n"; # philosophy
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