Re: about reference

2007-03-17 Thread Chas Owens
On 3/17/07, Jm lists <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: snip What's the difference between Perl's reference and C's pointer? I'm always confused about them.Thanks for any direction. snip In ANSI C a pointer is an address into raw memory. How much memory it returns is based on its type which is determi

Re: about reference

2007-03-17 Thread Tom Phoenix
On 3/17/07, Jm lists <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What's the difference between Perl's reference and C's pointer? I'm always confused about them.Thanks for any direction. Have you seen Perl's documentation? perlreftut Perl references short introduction perldsc Perl da