Kyle Burton on Mon, 10 Jul 2000 09:24:52 -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? 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine are weak dilutions. The surest poison is time. -- Emerson, "Society and Solitude" mortis@voicenet.com http://www.voicenet.com/~mortis ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Majordomo list services provided by PANIX <URL:http://www.panix.com>** **To Unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe phl" to majordomo@lists.pm.org**
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