Why can't Perl implicitly dereference array and hash references. Then we could kill the @ and % sigils forever and move on with our lives
Is there any worse indictment of Perl than the length of the doc which explains how to put an array in another array http://perldoc.perl.org/perldsc.html
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perldsc is ~16 pages long, in "Learn Perl in about 2 hours 30 minutes" I was able to cover the same material in ~4 http://qntm.org/files/perl/perl.html#refs …
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@qntm@mjdominus Not totally fair. That's not a ref doc, but a tutorial with example after example from a few basic principles. -
@jeffreykegler@mjdominus Sure, but in other programming languages this tutorial simply doesn't exist, or need to - 1 more reply
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