Simply Hao on Mon, 10 Jul 2000 11:15:19 -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?

I believe what Nic meant by this is explicit reference passing:

    foo (\@bar);

I'm not sure, but I think that its infrequent use is because having
a function to work on your variables directly is abnormal.

-Hao
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