Kyle Burton on Mon, 10 Jul 2000 09:24:52 -0400 (EDT)


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Re: references


> 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?

I'd have to agree with Michael, I use references for complex data structures
in almost all of the programs I've written using Perl.  If you've ever used
an object, you've used a refernece -- every object is a reference.


What gave you this impression?


k


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