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From:
Father Chrysostomos
Date:
August 12, 2013 22:56
Subject:
Re: postfix dereference syntax
Message ID:
20130812225633.25435.qmail@lists-nntp.develooper.com
David Nicol wrote:
> what's the advantage of $coderef->&* over $coderef->() ???

$foo->&* means &$foo, so:

\$foo->&* # \&$foo
$foo->&*  # &$foo -- sub call sharing @_
goto $foo->&*;

> Also, how about postfix reference operator?
> 
>      my $scalar;
>      my $reference = $scalar -> \*; # instead of \$scalar

Then $x = $x->[-1] becomes $x ->= [1->-*].
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