Luke Palmer skribis 2005-09-01 23:43 (+0000):
> I would probably say that scalars never automatically dereference.
> It's lists and hashes that automatically dereference/enreference.
arrays
> That is, everything is a scalar, really, but if you have an @ or a %
> on the front of your variable, that means that you flatten yourself
> into specific kinds of contexts.
sub foo (@bar) { ... }
foo $aref;
Here $aref is dereferenced because of the Array context. The scalar
can't do this by itself, of course.
Juerd
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