Robert Citek wrote:

On Jul 19, 2005, at 5:19 PM, Wiggins d'Anconia wrote:

Close. You want a hash slice.

@[EMAIL PROTECTED] = @vals;

A marvelously Perlish construct.

http://danconia.org


Sweeeeet!  Thanks a bunch.

Do you have a good reference which explains this? I've looked in both the Camel and Llama books, but didn't see the @$ construct anywhere.


basically it's shorthand for the more obvious and well documented @{$reference} notation.

great detail on this can be found in the perldocs: perlreftut perlref perldsc and perllol

Personally I feel the shorthand way makes it slightly more difficult WRT maintenance. Fine for one-offs but for long term multiline code, the long form would likely be preferable as it makes it easier to see just exactly what's going on there.

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