Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: > Every time I make a half-hearted attempt to learn enough Perl syntax to get > started, I keep running into the differences between $foo, %foo and @foo > and dire warnings about what happens if you use the wrong sigil
I have started learning Python several times and surrendered because my brain was too Perl hardcoded after 30 years, but NOW I was successful :-) (I still find Perl syntax better...) About the variables in short: $foo is a scalar (number, string, reference, file handle) @foo is an array %foo is a hash (dictionary in Python slang) and yes, you can use them all together in same code, they are different. For more discussion about Perl syntax one should better go to comp.lang.perl -- Ullrich Horlacher Server und Virtualisierung Rechenzentrum IZUS/TIK E-Mail: horlac...@tik.uni-stuttgart.de Universitaet Stuttgart Tel: ++49-711-68565868 Allmandring 30a Fax: ++49-711-682357 70550 Stuttgart (Germany) WWW: http://www.tik.uni-stuttgart.de/ -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
