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From:
Ingo Blechschmidt
Date:
September 11, 2005 06:35
Subject:
Re: \(...)?
Message ID:
dg1bkb$ad2$1@sea.gmane.org
Hi,
Larry Wall wrote:
> The only questions in my mind are whether Perl 5's \($a,$b) is
> what people expect (it's arguably counterintuitive to newbies),
> and whether there's some other construct that would more naturally
> construct a list of references. It's not just \« though, since it
> has to *parse* as a list of lvalues. Maybe a siglet can degenerate to
> that, but there are problems with that approach too. Unless someone
> can come up with a better proposal, \($a,$b) is the default winner
> on the basis of prior Perl 5 art.
So...:
\@array; # Ref to array
\(@array); # List of refs to @array's elements, i.e. same as
map { \$_ } @array;
# Weird (violating the "parens are only for grouping" rule), but
# consistent with Perl 5.
Correct?
--Ingo
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