On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 03:12:00PM -0700, Jim Gibson wrote:
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> On Sep 9, 2014, at 2:57 PM, Shawn H Corey wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 09 Sep 2014 23:09:52 +0200
> > lee wrote:
> >
> >> my $i = 1;
> >> my $f = 2.5;
> >> my $s = 'string';
> >> my $list = (1, 2, 3);
> >
> > No, the count of items in the
On Tue, 9 Sep 2014 15:05:58 -0700
Jim Gibson wrote:
> Some people make a distinction between 'list' and 'array'. A list is
> a sequence of scalar values indexed by an integer. An array is a
> variable whose value is a list (or something like that -- I don't
> really distinguish the two myself.)
On 09/09/2014 06:01 PM, John SJ Anderson wrote:
On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 2:57 PM, Shawn H Corey wrote:
Lists are sequences used by Perl. They are very short lived, seldom
longer than one statement.
The way I've always liked to explain this is that arrays are the
containers you use to store a li
On Sep 9, 2014, at 2:57 PM, Shawn H Corey wrote:
> On Tue, 09 Sep 2014 23:09:52 +0200
> lee wrote:
>
>> my $i = 1;
>> my $f = 2.5;
>> my $s = 'string';
>> my $list = (1, 2, 3);
>
> No, the count of items in the list gets stored in $list: $list == 3
Unless the thing on the right-hand-side of t
On Sep 9, 2014, at 2:09 PM, lee wrote:
> Jim Gibson writes:
>
>> On Sep 8, 2014, at 3:13 PM, lee wrote:
>>
>>> Shawn H Corey writes:
>>>
On Mon, 18 Aug 2014 16:17:53 +0800
# or
sub myfunc {
return [ 1, 2, 3 ];
}
>>>
>>> Is there a difference to
>>>
>>> sub my
On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 2:57 PM, Shawn H Corey wrote:
> Lists are sequences used by Perl. They are very short lived, seldom
> longer than one statement.
The way I've always liked to explain this is that arrays are the
containers you use to store a list.
As Shawn says, a list is usually pretty ep
On Tue, 09 Sep 2014 23:09:52 +0200
lee wrote:
> my $i = 1;
> my $f = 2.5;
> my $s = 'string';
> my $list = (1, 2, 3);
No, the count of items in the list gets stored in $list: $list == 3
> my $list_reference = [(1, 2, 3)];
> my $dereferenced_list = $@list_reference;
my @dereferenced_list = @$li
Jim Gibson writes:
> On Sep 8, 2014, at 3:13 PM, lee wrote:
>
>> Shawn H Corey writes:
>>
>>> On Mon, 18 Aug 2014 16:17:53 +0800
>>> # or
>>>
>>> sub myfunc {
>>> return [ 1, 2, 3 ];
>>> }
>>
>> Is there a difference to
>>
>> sub myfunc {
>> return ( 1, 2, 3 );
>> }
>
> The first example r
