On Dec 6, christopher j bottaro said:
>i'm a c/c++ programmer trying to learn perl. there are just some things that
>are much more easily done in a language like perl than in c/c++ i've found
>out...=) anyways, i'm reading a short tutorial about references. am i wrong
>in thinking they are like
cool thanks. and yes i'm reading perlreftut but not perlref. perlref looks a
bit too exhaustive for my purposes now. perhaps in the future when i become
more advanced in the ways of perl.
and Timothy, yeah i'm sure there are difference of course, but i guess i was
asking very generally if it
On Fri, 6 Dec 2002 13:57:33 -0600, christopher j bottaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> hello,
> i'm a c/c++ programmer trying to learn perl. there are just some things that
> are much more easily done in a language like perl than in c/c++ i've fou
Yes and no. I think that if you understand the concept of pointers, then
you will be able to understand references more easily, but from what keep
hearing from c/c++ people, there are differences. Perhaps someone else on
the list can clarify more.
One thing that Perl can do with references that
