On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 11:23:34PM +0300, Roie Marianer wrote: > That makes sense, but that would make > %num_of_lines<file> = @file > not DWIM... of course that would translate into > %num_of_lines<file> = scalar @file > so maybe that's OK.
In order to promote proper syntactical thinking, note that this is now spelled: %num_of_lines<file> = @file.elems; because the Perl 5 way would put a reference to @file in the hash. Scalar context always makes references now, from what I understand.
