Re: references in perl...

2002-12-06 Thread Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
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

Re: references in perl...

2002-12-06 Thread christopher j bottaro
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

RE: references in perl...

2002-12-06 Thread wiggins
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

RE: references in perl...

2002-12-06 Thread Timothy Johnson
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