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> 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?
Actually, I would say that references are used rather extensively.
Complex data structures and objects are probably the best examples;
check out the perllol(1) and perltoot(1) man pages, respectively...
-mct
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