Michael C. Toren on Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:30:03 -0400 (EDT)


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Re: references


> In that case, the answer is relatively easy.
> 
> That's poor perl programming.
> 
> You never (with a 99.9952334% probability) will ever need to do that.
> 
> It is	a) bug prone
> 	b) often a security hole
> 	c) better solved with a hash or an array

What about "$foo = \&sub", or "&calc(\@data1, \@data2)" ? :-)

References have their place, but like everything else, can be abused.

-mct