On 10/29/07, Tom Phoenix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> An array is the kind of variable which holds
> a list; a list is the kind of data which is stored in an array. You
> can use the list contained in an array, and you can store a list into
> an array. But the array is the container, and the list
ways make this distinction clear in the early days of Perl
and Perl documentation. It didn't help that scalar data is stored in
scalar variables. It seemed natural to try to make it happen that
arrays and lists could be considered "the same thing"; but (we realize
now) a list is not
