Re: Regex query

[Aaron Sherman]

On Sat, 2002-09-21 at 06:18, Smylers wrote:

>   $num = @massive;
> 
> C<$num> becomes a reference to C<@massive>, but in a numeric context it
> will evaluate to the number of elements in that array.
> 

But in most cases, you would never do this. You would do something like

        my int $num = @massive;

or

        if @massive {...}

or the like. In both cases, your later concerns about long-lived
references go away.


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Aaron Sherman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>