On Jan 22, 2008 8:45 PM, bootleg86 bootleg86 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I came across this construct
> foreach $i ( @{$y} ) {
> #do something
> }
>
> Is @ referring to some default array that doesn't need to be declared?
>
> Also it's using the associative version of an array?
> I always thought only hashes were associative.
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If the code works (and it isn't guarenteed to), then $y holds a
reference to an array and @{} is being used to corerce it into
behaving like an array (i.e. dereferencing it).
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