Michael C. Toren on Sun, 9 Jul 2000 23:40:01 -0400 (EDT) |
> I've noticed that references don't tend to be used a whole lot in > perl. Why is that? Wouldn't there be some tremendous gains in efficiency > if they were? And how come no automagic referencing & dereferencing? Actually, I would say that references are used rather extensively. Complex data structures and objects are probably the best examples; check out the perllol(1) and perltoot(1) man pages, respectively... -mct
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