I've been learning perl for pretty much exactly a year now. I Still feel like a newbie.
I haven't yet got to the chapters on Prototypes and Inheritance, I've read about the concepts but not yet applied them.
I've been using subroutines and modules quite a bit and references really threw me to start with.
I chose to use HTML::Template for my stuff and today had to write a nested loop situation. Glad to say I got the results I desired with a very neat and IMHO efficient piece of code.
I had to use references of course. And for the first 6 months references *really* threw me, and with such a verbose language as Perl references were not something I felt I needed to know when faced with the "where do I start" problem 12 months ago.
However I get them now. And for any other newbies out there... go look up references right now... really.
Examples of referencing and de-referencing found on this list and through google have helped of course, and thanks to the many people out there who contribute to these lists.
I\d be screwed without you.
Good Karma
Angie (returning to newbie lurk mode now... sorry... thank you.... sorry... thanks again.... ;)
On 6 Mar 2004, at 23:27, R. Joseph Newton wrote:
William Gunther wrote:
If a beginner can understand the concept of prototyping and referencing, I think they can gather an array reference is being passed.
Actually no. I have not seen this in the last year of reading this list. The
vast majority of newbie traffic that i have seen among the 22K+ posts inmy
archives provides strong indicatins of resistance to understanding references.
Syntactic tricks that allow beginners to offer aguments without explicit
referencing only fuzz up the matter.
At a later stage in development, perhaps, the prototyped form with the reference
to type indicator may be helpful, because it provides added information about
the function--when looking at the prototype.
Joseph
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