Re: references

["Michael C. Toren" <mct@netaxs.com>]

>     Can you provide us an example of what you haven't seen?  I use
> references a lot, mostly implicitly.  I don't know what \VARIABLE is
> supposed to represent.

I believe he's referring to something like:

	$foo = "xyzzy";
	$bar = \$foo;

$bar is then a reference to $foo.

-mct